// Multilingual Education. 2012, 2 (3). P.1-24<div class="bb-sep"></div>The large influx of Chinese language learners into the Peopleβs Republic of China from different countries shapes the Chinese as a foreign language classroom as a multilingual and multinational domain. However, how Chinese langu
Code Choice in the Language Classroom
β Scribed by Glenn S. Levine
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 203
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book argues that the foreign language classroom should be regarded as a multilingual community of practice. From a sociocultural and ecological position, Levine guides the reader through a theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical treatment of the important roles of the first language, and of code-switching practices, in the language classroom.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part 1: Conceptual Framework
Chapter 1: Monolingual Norms and Multilingual Realities
Chapter 2: The Conundrum of Babel: Toward a Theoretical Framework for a Multilingual Approach
Chapter 3: What is a Code? What is Code-Switching?
Part 2: Empirical Support
Chapter 4 The Code Choice Status Quo of the Language Classroom
Chapter 5 Classroom Code Choice: Toward Becoming Bilingual
Part 3: Curriculum
Chapter 6: An Architecture of Classroom Code Choice
Chapter 7: Getting from Marked to Unmarked and Back Again: Articulation of Multilingual Classroom Communities of Practice
Epilogue: Blessings of Babel
References
Index
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