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Minority languages and multilingual education : bridging the local and the global / Durk Gorter, Victoria Zenotz, Jasone Cenoz, editors

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Dordrecht : Springer, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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Gorter, D. (Durk), Zenotz, Victoria, and Cenoz, Jasone
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Contents
Introduction: Minority Language Education Facing Major Local and Global Challenges / Durk Gorter, Victoria Zenotz and Jasone Cenoz -- Adopting a Multilingual Habitus: What North and South Can Learn from Each Other About the Essential Role of Non-dominant Languages in Education / Carol Benson -- Models for Trilingual Education in the People's Republic of China / Bob Adamson and Anwei Feng -- Margins, Diversity and Achievement: System-Wide Data and Implementation of Multilingual Education in Ethiopia / Kathleen Heugh -- A New Model of Bilingualism for Singapore: Multilingualism in the Twenty-First Century / Chua Siew Kheng Catherine -- Language Education and Canada's Indigenous Peoples / Mela Sarkar and Constance Lavoie -- Policy and Teaching English to Palestinian Students in Israel: An Ecological Perspective to Language Education Policies / Muhammad Amara -- Interethnic Understanding and the Teaching of Local Languages in Sri Lanka / Indika Liyanage and Suresh Canagarajah -- Dynamic Multimodal Language Practices in Multilingual Indigenous Sámi Classrooms in Finland / Sari Pietikäinen and Anne Pitkänen-Huhta -- Balancing the Languages in Māori-Medium Education in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Richard Hill and Stephen May -- Critical Classroom Practices: Using "English" to Foster Minoritized Languages and Cultures in Oaxaca, Mexico / Mario E. López-Gopar, Narcedalia Jiménez Morales and Arcadio Delgado Jiménez -- Multilingualism and European Minority Languages: The Case of Basque / Durk Gorter, Victoria Zenotz, Xabier Etxague and Jasone Cenoz.
Summary
This book presents research on the situation minority language school children face when they need to learn languages of international communication, in particular English. The book takes minority languages as a starting point and it bridges local and global perspectives in the analysis of multilingual education contexts. It examines the interaction of minority languages and cultures, majority languages and lingua franca-s in a variety of settings across different regions and countries on all continents. Even though all chapters in this book involve minority languages, the issues discussed are relevant to any context in which more than language is used in education. The book reveals challenges and opportunities of multilingual education by discussing issues such as Northern and Southern concepts, language education policies, language diversity, interethnic understanding, multimodal language practices, power, conflict, identity and prestige, among many others.
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ISBN
9789400773172 (electronic bk.)
940077317X (electronic bk.)
1306543630
9781306543637
9789400773165
9400773161
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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