Teaching Conceptual Understanding in Multilingual Classrooms

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-83668-276-9
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

A practical guide combining theory and best teaching practices to enable teachers to support multilingual learners to reach a level of deeper, conceptual understanding.

This book guides educators through a concept-based curriculum designed to foster deep, enduring understanding for multilingual learners. The authors provide language scaffolds for this curriculum to allow all students to develop conceptual understanding and the ability to express it in multiple languages. The book opens with the underpinning theories of learning, offering an accessible overview of the relevant research from cognition, education and multilingualism. It offers examples of concept-based inquiry and translanguaging pedagogy, and proposes a combined approach that addresses the complexities of teaching new language learners. It concludes by addressing the challenges of implementing new curricula and offers advice for school leaders and educators on effective change management.

This practical resource includes sample lesson plans as well as access to videos and teaching materials online, allowing educators to easily adapt ideas to their own context for a more inclusive classroom environment. Designed for pre-service and in-service teachers, end of chapter reflection prompts and activities make this an ideal resource for teacher training and professional development programs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eerdewijk, Juliette van

McCracken, Mindy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why we Wrote this Book

Section One: Exploring Concepts – Theory to Practice

Chapter 1. How The Brain Works and Develops to Support Learning

Chapter 2. Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction

Chapter 3. How We Develop High Achieving Intellectual Individuals

Chapter 4. EAL Theories that Explain Additional Language Learning

Chapter 5. Educational Approaches for Developing Languages

Section Two: Concepts in Practice

Chapter 6. Concept-Based Instruction

Chapter 7. Effective Teaching of English for Multilingual Learners

Chapter 8. Combining Concept-Based Inquiry and Language Learning Strategies such as Translanguaging

Chapter 9. Planning a Unit of Inquiry with Linguistic Challenges in Mind

Section 3: Challenges and Considerations in Implementation

Chapter 10. Implications for the Change Process

Chapter 11. How we Drive Long Term Strategic Language Change

Chapter 12. Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Change Process

Chapter 13. Final Thoughts

Über Autor(innen)

McCracken, Mindy
Mindy McCracken is the Primary English as an Additional Language Leader at the International School of the Hague, Netherlands. She is a Teaching English in Multilingual Classrooms trainer with 20 years of teaching experience in international schools.

Eerdewijk, Juliette van
Juliette van Eerdewijk is an Educational Advisor and Trainer based in the UAE. She has over three decades of leadership experience in education and is a certified Erickson and Lanning Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction trainer.

Juliette van Eerdewijk is an Educational Advisor and Trainer based in the UAE. She has over three decades of leadership experience in education and is a certified Erickson and Lanning Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction trainer.

Mindy McCracken is the Primary English as an Additional Language Leader at the International School of the Hague, the Netherlands. She is a Teaching English in Multilingual Classrooms trainer with 20 years of teaching experience in international schools.