Multilingualism as Opportunity: An Integrated Perspective on English and Languages Education in Australia [Hardcover]

1. Introduction: English, Language(s), and Australian Education

Part One

2. Exploring Context and Possibility in Education Through the Understanding and Undoing of Language?

3. On Language and Hospitality:?A Practice-Ontological Perspective

4. English in Australia  A Multilingual Subject?

5. Home Languages are Everyones Business

Part Two

6. Subject English, Multilingualism and Critical Cultural Studies: Relanguaging English Education in Australia towards Postcolonial Possibility

7. Teaching Literature in the Contact Zone: Knowledge, Language and Meaning-Making in Plurilingual Classrooms

8. From EAL Students to Multilingual Learners: Privileging Existing Language Knowledge in Australian Classrooms ?

9. Rethinking Digital Multimodal Composing by Embracing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in the Classroom

Part Three

10. Teachers as Co-Learners of Languages: Recurricularising Language and Literacy Learning as a Multilingual and Collaborative Endeavour?

11. Bringing Reciprocal Multilingual Awareness to Australian Language(s) Education

12. Teaching about Honeybees: Embracing Indigenous Language, Culture, and Content through On Country Learning

13. Multilingualism and Intercultural Development: Transformative Identity within Languages Curriculum

14. Conclusion: Multilingualism as Opportunity

This book addresses how language is conceptualised in Australian schooling to deliver a better understanding of how multilingualism can be incorporated into everyday teaching and learning, practice and policy.?

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