The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education

✍ Scribed by Enrica Piccardo (editor), Aline Germain-Rutherford (editor), Geoff Lawrence (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 534
• Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education is the first comprehensive publication on plurilingualism, offering a multidimensional reflection on the nature, scope, and potential of plurilingualism in language education and society. Authored by a range of internationally recognized experts, the Handbook provides an overview of key perspectives on plurilingualism in a complementary range of fields. After a comprehensive introduction to the concept itself, 24 chapters are organized in six parts, each examining plurilingualism through a different lens. The Handbook spans historical, philosophical, and sociological dimensions, examines cognitive and neuroscientific implications, and the limitations of boundaries before moving to a pragmatic perspective: How is plurilingual language education developing in different contexts around the world? How can it contribute to language revitalization? How can it be expected to develop in education, digital spaces, and society as a whole? Written for an international audience, this handbook is an indispensable reference tool for scholars in education and applied linguistics, educators, graduate and post-graduate students, and policy makers.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
An Introduction to Plurilingualism and This Handbook • Enrica Piccardo, Aline Germain-Rutherford, and Geoff Lawrence
Summaries of Chapters in the Handbook
Part I: Historical Perspectives on Plurilingualism
1 Promoting Plurilingualism and Plurilingual Education: A European Perspective • Georges Lüdi
2 Plurilingualism and the Tangled Web of Lingualisms • Steve Marshall
3 The Mediated Nature of Plurilingualism • Enrica Piccardo
4 Cosmopolitanism and Plurilingual Traditions: Learning from South Asian and Southern African Practices of Intercultural Communication • Shakil Rabbi and Suresh Canagarajah
Part I: Critical Friend Response • Danièle Moore
Part II: Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives
5 Language, Languaging, Plurilanguaging: Considerations on the Nature of Language and Language Education • Waldemar Martyniuk
6 Evaluating Theoretical Constructs Underlying Plurilingual Pedagogies: The Role of Teachers as Knowledge-Generators and Agents of Language Policy • Jim Cummins
7 Latin American Postcolonial Approaches to Plurilingualism: The Mexican Experience • Colette Despagne
8 Linguistic Hybridity and Global Mobility • Stephen Bahry
Part II: Critical Friend Response • Bonny Norton
Part III: The Plurilingual Individual: Cognition and Socialization
9 Neuroscience and Plurilingual Education: Trends for a Research Agenda • Claudia Maria Riehl
10 The Cognitive and Psychological Dimensions of Plurilingualism • Thomas H. Bak and Dina Mehmedbegovic-Smith
11 A Sociocognitive Theory for Plurilingualism: Complex Dynamic Systems Theory • Diane Larsen-Freeman and Elka Todeva
12 Plurilingual Creativity: A New Framework for Research in Plurilingual and Creative Practices • Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin
Part III: Critical Friend Response • Isabel Capron Puozzo
Part IV: Negotiating Boundaries: Plurilingual Expression
13 Questioning Human and Material Boundaries in Plurilingual Identity Construction • Diane Dagenais, Geneviève Brisson, Magali Forte, and Gwénaëlle André
14 Social Sciences’ Last Hope: Giving Plurilingualism a Chance? • Jean-Claude Barbier
15 Online Plurilingual Interaction: Identity Construction and Development of Plurilingual Competence in Students and Teachers: A Focus on Intercomprehension • Maria Helena Araújo e Sá and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
16 What Can Theatre Contribute to Plurilingual Education? • Joëlle Aden
Part IV: Critical Friend Response • Jonas Erin
Part V: Plurilingualism, Pluriculturalism, and Practices in Language Education
17 Plurilingual Mediation in the Classroom: Examples from Practice • Brian North
18 Intercomprehension: Strengths and Opportunities of a Pluralistic Approach • Maddalena De Carlo and Sandra Garbarino
19 Language Assessment in the Context of Plurilingualism • Nick Saville and Graham Seed
20 A Multi-Perspective Tour of Best Practices
Perspective 1: Plurilingual Education in Europe: Contexts, Initiatives and Ongoing Challenges • Emilee Moore and Mercè Bernaus
Perspective 2: Challenges to Implementing Best Practices in Complex Plurilingual Environments: The Case of South Asia • Shelley K. Taylor and Ajit K. Mohanty
Perspective 3: Plurilingualism in Southern Africa • Medadi E. Ssentanda and Bonny Norton
Perspective 4: Plurilingual Possibilities in the US: Beyond Translanguaging with Minoritized Bilinguals to Critical Multilingual Language Awareness for All Learners • Gail Prasad
Perspective 5: Plurilingual Teachers in a Monolingual Disguise: Linguistic Landscapes and Language Pedagogy in Two Brazilian Language Programmes • Angelica Galante
Perspective 6: Plurilingual Practices: A Canadian Perspective • Marie-Paule Lory
Perspective 7: Plurilingual Perspectives in Australian Education • Sue Ollerhead and Julie Choi
Part V: Critical Friend Response • Angel M. Y. Lin
Part VI: The Potential Future of Plurilingualism
21 Language Revitalization as a Plurilingual Endeavour • Robert Elliott
22 Plurilingualism in Digital Spaces • Jérémie Séror
23 Examining the Nature and Potential of Plurilingual Language Education: Towards a Seven-Step Plurilingual Language Education Framework • Nathalie Auger
24 The Ongoing Role of the CEFR in Our Plurilingual Landscape • Bernd Rüschoff
Part VI: Critical Friend Response • Michele Gazzola
Index