Policy and Practice for Multilingual Educational Settings: Comparisons across Contexts

✍ Scribed by Siv Björklund (editor); Mikaela Björklund (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; 138
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Exploring multilingualism as a complex, context-related, societal and individual phenomenon, this book centres around perspectives on how multiple languages are made (in)visible within educational settings. The chapters compare findings across geographical contexts in the areas of language policy and planning, multilingual practices and identity.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Introduction
1 A Comparison of Swedish and Canadian Educational Policies and Instructional Practices: The Case of Multilingual Language Learners
2 National Curriculum Reforms and Their Impact on Indigenous and Minority Languages: The Sami in Norway and Welsh in Wales in Comparative Perspective
3 Languaging and Language Policies among Multilingual Children and Youth Groups in Finland and Denmark
4 ‘I Am a Plurilingual Speaker, but Can I Teach Plurilingual Speakers?’ Contradictions in Student Teacher Discourses on Plurilingualism in Spain, Slovenia and Finland
5 In Search of Dominant Language Constellations among Multilingual Young Adults in Cyprus and Finland: The Infl uence of Multiple Language Use and Practices on Linguistic Identity and Trajectories as Future Teachers
6 Supporting Multilingual Learning in Educational Contexts: Lessons from Poland, Finland and California
7 Researching Adolescents’ Linguistic Repertoires in Multilingual Areas: Case Studies from South Tyrol and Finland
Creating Synergies in Comparative Multilingualism: An Epilogue
Index