Flexible multilingual education : putting children's needs first / Jean-Jacques Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Jean Jacques.

Series:

New perspectives on language and education ; 38.

New perspectives on language and education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism in children.

Multilingual education.

Children--Language.

Children.

Physical Description:

vii, 218 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, 2014.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

Part 1

2 Using Non-standard Varieties in Education 13

3 The Issue of Access 31

4 What Makes and Breaks a Good Language-in-Education Policy? A Social Perspective 49

Part 2

5 The United States of America 69

6 Hong Kong and China 87

7 Singapore 105

8 South Africa 123

9 Luxembourg 142

10 Three Autonomous Communities of Spain: Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia 160

11 Conclusion 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781783091997

1783091991

9781783091980

1783091983

OCLC:

870199343