Multilingual classroom ecologies : inter-relationships, interactions, and ideologies / edited by Angela Creese and Peter Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Creese, Angela.

Martin, Peter W.

Series:

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 44.

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Bilingual--Congresses.

Education, Bilingual.

Multiculturalism--Congresses.

Multiculturalism.

Literacy--Congresses.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon, England ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : Multilingual Matters, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The theme of this book is the multilingual classroom and the interrelationships, interactions and ideologies that apply in such classrooms. Drawing on studies from different multilingual communities in different parts of the world, the volume demonstrates the complex nature of the multilingual classroom, and in so doing provides a number of interdisciplinary perspectives for an international audience. The contributions to the volume are located within an ecological framework, one that emphasises the inter-relationships between languages and their speakers in multilingual and multi-cultural classrooms, the dynamics of multilingual classroom interaction, and the positionings of classroom languages and their speakers in dominant educational discourses. There are three main themes interweaved throughout the book: Inter-relationships • Relationships between languages and their speakers in multilingual/multicultural classrooms. • The impact of educationally dominant languages on the ecologies of other languages. Interactions • The dynamics of multilingual classroom interaction for learning and teaching bilingually. • The discursive meetings and mergings of socially situated participants within multilingual classrooms. Ideology • The positionings of classroom languages and their speakers in dominant educational discourses/conversations. • The positionings of pedagogies, knowledge and participants in multilingual classrooms.

Contents:

Multilingual classroom ecologies : inter-relationships, interactions, and ideologies / Angela Creese and Peter Martin

Legal discourse and decisions, teacher policymaking and the multilingual classroom : constraining and supporting Khmer/English biliteracy in the United States / Ellen Skilton-Sylvester

Interactions and inter-relationships around text : practices and positionings in a multilingual classroom in Brunei / Peter W. Martin

Talk around text : literacy practices, cultural identity, and authority in a Corsican bilingual classroom / Alexandra Jaffe

Language, ethnicity, and the mediation of allegations of racism : negotiating diversity and sameness in multilingual school discourses / Angela Creese

Constructing discursive practices in school and community : bilingualism, gender, and power / Deirdre Martin

"Baro afkaaga hooyo!" : a case study of Somali literacy teaching in Liverpool / Jo Arthur

Bilingual resources and "funds of knowledge" for teaching and learning in multi-ethnic classrooms in Britain / Marilyn Martin-Jones and Mukul Saxena

Foreign-born teachers in the multilingual classroom in Sweden : the role of attitudes to foreign accent / Sally Boyd

Afterword : ecology and ideology in multilingual classrooms / Nancy H. Hornberger.

Notes:

"This book is also available as vol. 6, nos 3 & 4 of the International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781853596965

9786610828296

9781853596966

9781280828294

1280828293

9781853596964

1853596965

OCLC:

54663368