Forging Multilingual Spaces: Integrated Perspectives on Majority and Minority Bilingual Education

✍ Scribed by Christine Hélot (editor); Anne-Marie de Mejía (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book proposes an integrated approach to the study of bilingual education in minority and majority settings. Contributions from scholars in different countries in Europe and the Americas show how to bridge the gap between elite bilingualism and the bilingualism of minority communities and work towards multilingual spaces.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
The Contributors
1 Introduction
Part 1: The Americas
2. Teaching Spanish and Spanish in Teaching in the USA: Integrating Bilingual Perspectives
3. Plurilingual Latin America: Indigenous Languages, Immigrant Languages, Foreign Languages - Towards an Integrated Policy of Language and Education
4. Points of Contact or Separate Paths: A Vision of Bilingual Education in Colombia
5. Staff Profiles in Minority and Prestigious Bilingual Education Contexts in Argentina
Part 2: Europe
6. The National Languages Strategy in the UK: Are Minority Languages Still on the Margins?
7. Bilingual Education in France: School Policies Versus Home Practices
8. Languages and Language Learning in Catalan Schools: From the Bilingual to the Multilingual Challenge
9. Educating for Participation in a Bilingual or a Multilingual Society? Challenging the Power Balance between English and Irish (Gaelic) and Other Minority Languages in Ireland