Applied linguistics research and good practices for multicultural and multilingual classrooms / Isaak Papadopoulos and Smaragda Papadopoulou (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Papadopoulou, Smaragda, editor.

Papadopoulos, Isaak, editor.

Series:

Languages and Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and education.

Multicultural education.

Multilingual education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

"This book aspires to provide a reflective and descriptive account of innovative research works and practices related to promoting and accommodating cultural and linguistic diversity in education. Within a diverse world, classrooms with diversity are not considered to be a major challenge, especially when researchers and teachers are making a joint attempt to accommodate this diversity of skills, competences, knowledge, expertise, feeling, languages, and cultures. This book has been developed to cover various aspects of approaching and supporting multilingual and multicultural classrooms through a selection of chapters, which shed light onto experiences in the field. The contributors of this book report and reflect on practices that raise students' multilingual and inter/multicultural awareness, communication and interaction. They discuss challenges of various contexts and provide perspectives from different angles on the above-mentioned issues underlining the need for continuous research, implementation and reflection in modern diverse classrooms. Teachers and researchers internationally seem to have placed this diversity at the center of their attention and this book is an example of best practices and pieces of research towards supporting such classrooms which have been seen as a crossroad for languages and cultures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction - Supporting and Empowering Multilingual and Multicultural Classrooms

References

Chapter 1

Educational Practices in Multicultural and Multilingual Preschools in Iceland and Partnerships with Parents

Abstract

Introduction

Theoretical Framework

Educational Practices in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts

Educational Partnerships of Schools, Families and Communities

Methodology

The Preschools

Findings

Multicultural and Multilingual Practices in the Preschools

Multilingualism at Home

Educational Partnerships of Parents, Preschools and Community

Discussion

About the Author

Chapter 2

Pre-Service Primary School Teacher's Preparedness to Work in a Multilingual Environment

Methods

Results

NHL Stenden Bachelor's Program "International Teacher Education for Primary Schools"

Ukrainian Professional Standard for the "Primary School Teacher" (2018)

Matrix of the Primary School Teacher Preparedness to Work in the Multilingual Environment

About the Authors

Chapter 3

The Hidden Curriculum in Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms

Theoretical Perspectives

The Concept and Function of 'Hidden Curriculum'

Data and Method

Observation Tool Results

Questionnaire Results

Conclusion

Chapter 4

Raising Language Awareness and Intercultural Sensitivity in Mixed Classrooms

The Project

Aims and Objectives

Participants

Procedures

Activity 1: How to Say 'Goodmorning'/'Hello' in Other Languages

Activity 2: The Language Quiz

Activity 3: Find the Language of the Song.

Activity 4: Proverbs in Many Languages - Guess the Greek Proverb

Closing Activity

Chapter 5

Supporting Teachers in Refugee Children's Education

Theoretical and Evidence-Based Foundations of the Teacher Education Program

The Content of Teacher Education

The Process of Teacher Education

Enacting Spaces for Transformative Shifts in Teacher Thinking and Practice

Chapter 6

The Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP) of UNICEF for Teaching History in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms in Greece

The Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP) of UNICEF

Educational Needs of the Target-Group

Methods Used for the Development of the Educational Material

Pilot-Testing of the Teaching Material

Chapter 7

Language Diversity in Class: The Case of Dialectal Variation

Dialectal Variants and Linguistic Diversity

Studies on the Role and Value of Dialects

Organizing the Teaching of Geographical Varieties: The Case of the Dialect of Crete

Synopsis

Chapter 8

Translanguaging in Multilingual Classrooms in Cyprus

Materials and Procedure

Chapter 9

Translanguaging as a Pedagogical Practice in Primary Education: Approaching, Managing and Teaching Diverse Classrooms

Towards an Understanding of Translanguaging

Translanguaging and Intercultural Communication

Rationale of the Project

Implementation Procedures

Knowledge Process 1: Experiencing

Stage 1. Experiencing the Known.

Stage 2. Experiencing the New

Knowledge Process 2: Conceptualizing

Stage 1. Conceptualizing by Naming

Stage 2. Conceptualizing with Theory

Knowledge Process 3: Analyzing

Stage 1. Analyzing Functionally

Stage 2. Analyzing Critically

Knowledge Process 4: Application

Stage 1. Applying Appropriately

Stage 2. Applying Creatively

Pre- and Post- Language Assessment

Teachers' Journal

Students' Portfolios

Indicative Students' Works

Indicative Work 1. The Albanian Travel Agent!

Indicative Work 2. A Craft for Thought

Chapter 10

"We Should Not Bury Our Language by Our Hands": Crafting Creative Translanguaging Spaces in Higher Education in the UAE

Participants, Research Questions and Method

Chapter 11

The Socialization of Students in the EFL Classroom according to Their Cultural and Religious Background

Literature Review

Data Analysis

Students' Findings

Social Competence in the EFL

Religio-Cultural Material in the EFL

Students and Social Inclusion

Teachers' Findings

Social Competence and Social Inclusion in the EFL

Students' Attitudes

Teachers' Attitudes

Index

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-5361-9637-1

OCLC:

1250260891