Culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms : new dilemmas for teachers / edited by Jennifer Miller, Alex Kostogriz and Margaret Gearon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Jennifer, 1952-

Kostogriz, Alexander.

Gearon, Margaret.

Series:

New perspectives on language and education.

New perspectives on language and education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Foreign speakers.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.

Language arts (Secondary)--Social aspects.

Language arts (Secondary).

Literacy--Social aspects.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A critical reality of contemporary education in a globalised world is the growing cultural, racial and linguistic diversity in schools and the issues involved in educating increasing numbers of students who are still learning the dominant language. This poses extraordinary challenges for second and foreign language teachers in many countries, where such students must engage with the mainstream curriculum in a new language. What do these increasingly plurilingual and multicultural classrooms look like? And how do language teachers address the challenges of such diverse classrooms? This book brings together a group of well-recognised language education scholars who present their research in a range of international settings. They focus on the key areas of pedagogy, language policy and curriculum and exemplify new research directions in the field.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Chapter 1. The Challenges of Diversity in Language Education

Chapter 2. Multilingual Educational Systems: An Added Challenge for Immigrant Students

Chapter 3. Teaching with an Accent: Linguistically Diverse Preservice Teachers in Australian Classrooms

Chapter 4. High Challenge, High Support Programmes with English as a Second Language Learners: A Teacher-Researcher Collaboration

Chapter 5. Language and Inclusion in Mainstream Classrooms

Chapter 6. Influences on the Written Expression of Bilingual Students: Teacher Beliefs and Cultural Dissonance

Chapter 7. Dilemmas of Efficiency, Identity and Worldmindedness

Chapter 8. Professional Ethics in Multicultural Classrooms: English, Hospitality and the Other

Chapter 9. English as Additional Language Across the Curriculum: Policies in Practice

Chapter 10. Language Pedagogies Revisited: Alternative Approaches for Integrating Language Learning, Language Using and Intercultural Understanding

Chapter 11. Educating Languages Teachers for Multilingual and Multicultural Settings

Chapter 12. Multilingual Researcher Identities: Interpreting Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms

Chapter 13. Negotiating Teacher-Researcher Collaboration in Immersion Education

Chapter 14. Languages in the Classroom: Institutional Discourses and Users’ Experiences

Chapter 15. Bringing Home and Community to School: Institutional Constraints and Pedagogic Possibilities

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms : new dilemmas for teachers

ISBN:

1-84769-379-2

1-282-65699-6

9786612656996

1-84769-218-4

OCLC:

593240047