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"Colonialingualism": Colonial Legacies, Imperial Mindsets, and Inequitable Practices in English Language Education
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Meighan, Paul J. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2023
Translanguaging and plurilingual approaches in English Language Education (ELE) have been important for envisaging more equitable language education. However, the languages implemented in translanguaging or plurilingual classrooms predominantly reflect the knowledge and belief systems of dominant, nation-state, "official", and/or…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Western Civilization
Policy and Practice for Multilingual Educational Settings: Comparisons across Contexts. Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
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Björklund, Siv, Ed.; Björklund, Mikaela, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
Exploring multilingualism as a complex, context-related, societal and individual phenomenon, this book centres around perspectives on how multiple languages are made (in)visible within educational settings in the Global North. The authors of each chapter compare and contrast findings across geographical contexts with the goal of understanding the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Interdisciplinary Approach
Translanguaging in Immersion: Cognitive Support or Social Prestige?
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Lyster, Roy – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2019
Translanguaging practices come into play in social interactions between bilinguals when they are making use of all their shared linguistic resources and blending their languages in natural ways. Stemming from these practices is translanguaging pedagogy, which is designed so that students in school-based additive bilingual programs can benefit from…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English, Native Language, Immersion Programs
Plurilingual Pedagogies at the Post-Secondary Level: Possibilities for Intentional Engagement with Students' Diverse Linguistic Repertoires
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Van Viegen, Saskia; Zappa-Hollman, Sandra – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
This paper draws draw on conceptualisations of language as heteroglossic to examine whether and how multilingual practices and plurilingual pedagogies are enacted as instructional strategies in two multilingual English-medium universities in western Canada. Multilingual educational contexts have the potential to comprise 'translanguaging spaces'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, English
Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages. Multilingual Matters 76.
Fishman, Joshua A. – 1991
On the basis of detailed analyses of 10 threatened language-in-society constellations and three formerly endangered but now secure constellations, this book develops a closely argued theory of worldwide efforts on behalf of reversing language shift (RLS). It also applies this same line of reasoning to the problems of maintaining the…
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Basque, Code Switching (Language), Ethnic Groups
Voices of Authority: Education and Linguistic Difference. Contemporary Studies in Linguistics and Education, Volume 1.
Heller, Monica, Ed.; Martin-Jones, Marilyn, Ed. – 2001
Chapters in this volume include the following: "Co-Constructing School Safetime: Safetalk Practices in Peruvian and South African Classrooms" (Nancy H. Hornberger, J. Keith Chick); "Codeswitching and Collusion: Classroom Interaction in Botswana Primary Schools" (Jo Arthur); "Language and Educational Inequality in Primary…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Maintenance, Educational Policy