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Sharples, Robert – Multilingual Matters, 2021
This book offers an evidence-based guide to EAL for everyone who works with multilingual learners. It provides a concise, helpful introduction to the latest research underpinning three key areas of EAL practice: (1) How children acquire additional languages? (2) How language works across the curriculum? and (3) How you can establish outstanding…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
Paulsrud, BethAnne, Ed.; Rosén, Jenny, Ed.; Straszer, Boglárka, Ed.; Wedin, Åsa, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2017
This edited collection explores the immense potential of translanguaging in educational settings and highlights teachers and students negotiating language ideologies in their everyday communicative practices. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on translanguaging and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Chimbutane, Feliciano – Multilingual Matters, 2011
This book calls for critical adaptations when theories of bilingual education, based on practices in the North, are applied to the countries of the global South. For example, it challenges the assumption that transitional models necessarily lead to language shift and cultural assimilation. Taking an ethnographically-based narrative on the purpose…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Educational Theories
Preisler, Bent; Klitgard, Ida; Fabricius, Anne – Multilingual Matters, 2011
Based on a series of studies from universities around the world, this book suggests that internationalization does not equate with across-the-board use of English, and instead represents a new cultural and linguistic hybridity with the potential to develop new identities unfettered by traditional "us-and-them" binary thinking, and which…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Linguistics, Language of Instruction, Global Approach