Plurilingualism in Teaching and Learning: Complexities across Contexts [Hardcover]

Assembling a rich and diverse range of research studies on the role of plurilingualism across a wide variety of teaching and learning settings, this book supports teacher reflection and action in practical ways and illustrates how researchers tease out and analyze the complex realities of their educational environments. With a focus on education policies, teaching practices, training, and resourcing, this volume addresses a range of mainstream and specialized contexts and examines the position of learners and teachers as users of plurilingual repertoires. Providing a close look into the possibilities and constraints of plurilingual education, this book helps researchers and educators clarify and strengthen their understandings of the links between language and literacy and offers them new ways to think more rigorously and critically about the language ideologies that shape their own beliefs and approaches in language teaching and learning.

1. Introduction  Part I Plurilingual language-in-education policies  2. Provision, policy and reasoning: The pluralisation of the language education endeavor  3. Mother-tongue based multilingual education in the Philippines: Perceptions, problems and possibilities  4. Bypassing unrepresentative policies: What do Indigenous Australians say about language education?  Part II Plurilingual student repertoires  5. The translingual advantage: Metrolingual student repertoires  6. An expanded view of translanguaging: Leveraging the dynamic interactions between a young multilingual writer and machine translation software  7. Keeping the plurilingual insight: Visualising the literacies of out-of-school children in northern Ghana  Part III Plurilingual classroom practices and teacher perspectives  8. Translingual innovation within clã¬