| Flexible Multilingual Education Contributor(s): Weber, Jean-Jacques (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783091983 ISBN-13: 9781783091980 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Bilingual Education |
| Dewey: 404.208 |
| LCCN: 2014001715 |
| Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.85" W x 8.49" (0.68 lbs) 218 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children's actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages that students need for their educational and professional success. It argues that, as more and more children grow up multilingually in our globalised world, there is a need for more nuanced multilingual solutions in language-in-education policies. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education - rather than mother tongue education - is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today's world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Weber, Jean-Jacques: - Jean-Jacques Weber is Professor of English and Education at the University of Luxembourg. His research interests include discourse analysis, and multilingualism and education, and he has recently co-authored Introducing Multilingualism (2012) and co-edited Multilingualism and Multimodality (2013). |
