Flexible multilingual education: putting children's needs first
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Main Author: Weber, Jean Jacques 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Clevedon Channel View Publications 2014
Series:New perspectives on language and education 38
Subjects:
Item Description:Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part 1; 2 Using Non-standard Varieties in Education; 3 The Issue of Access; 4 What Makes and Breaks a Good Language-in-Education Policy?; Part 2; 5 The United States of America; 6 Hong Kong and China; 7 Singapore; 8 South Africa; 9 Luxembourg; 10 Three Autonomous Communities of Spain: Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia; 11 Conclusion; References; Author Index; Subject Index
This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children's actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages that students need for their educational and professional success. It argues that, as more and more children grow up multilingually in our globalised world, there is a need for more nuanced multilingual solutions in language-in-education policies. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual educa
Physical Description:226 pages
ISBN:9781783092000
1783092009

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