The Multilingual Challenge: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Ulrike Jessner-Schmid (editor); Claire J. Kramsch (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 370
Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]; 16
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This collection of scholarly articles is the first to address the challenges of multilingualism from a multidisciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine both the beneficial and the problematic aspects of multilingualism in various dimensions, that is, they address familial, educational, academic, artistic, scientific, historical, professional, and geopolitical challenges.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of contents
Notes on the contributors
Introduction: The multilingual challenge
Part I: Familial challenges
1 Challenges of multilingualism to the family
2 The promotion of multilingualism in a Catalan-speaking area. Familial challenges in the Valencian Community
Part II: Educational challenges
3 Conflict in the second language classroom: a teacher of Spanish facing the complicated dimensions of multilingualism
4 The legitimacy gap: multilingual language teachers in an era of globalization
5 « Le multilinguisme en question ? » – The case of minority language education in Brittany (France)
Part III: Institutional challenges
6 Challenges to monolingual national literatures
7 Multilingual and intercultural competence on the threshold of the Third Reich
8 Linguistic Unheimlichkeit: the Armenian and Arab communities of Cyprus
Part IV: Scientific challenges
9 Monolingualism and multilingualism in the construction and dissemination of scientific knowledge
10 Le Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme : une recherche internationale, face aux défis d’une conception plurilingue et d’une traduction en anglais et en chinois
11 Understanding current multilingualism: what can the butterfly tell us?
Part V: Professional and geopolitical challenges
12 Language policy and planning in international organisations
13 Challenges within the ecology of multilingual interactions in Aboriginal cultural tourism in Central Australia
Afterword: Challenging multilingualism
Index

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