Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 192 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350072053
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9781350072152
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9781350072046
Series Statement:
Multilingualisms and diversities in education
Content:
"Engaging with Linguistic Diversity describes an innovative and highly successful approach to inclusive plurilingual education at primary level. The approach was developed by Scoil Bhríde (Cailíní), Blanchardstown, as a way of converting extreme linguistic diversity - more than 50 home languages in a school of 320 pupils - into educational capital. The central feature of the approach is the inclusion of home languages in classroom communication. After describing the national context, the book traces the development of Scoil Bhríde's approach and explores in detail its impact on classroom discourse, pupils' plurilingual literacy development, and their capacity for autonomous learning. The authors illustrate their arguments with a wealth of practical evidence drawn from a variety of sources; pupils' and teachers' voices are especially prominent. The concluding chapter considers issues of sustainability and replication and the implications of the approach for teacher education. The book refers to a wide range of relevant research findings and theories, including translanguaging, plurilingual and intercultural education, language awareness and language learner autonomy. It is essential reading for researchers and policy-makers in the field of linguistically inclusive education."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Preface -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Foreword, Jim Cummins (University of Toronto, Canada) -- Introduction -- 1. The National Context -- 2. Scoil Bhríde (Cailíní) and the Evolution of an Inclusive Language Education Policy -- 3. Languages in Classroom Discourse: Using Plurilingual Skills to Construct Knowledge -- 4. The Development of Plurilingual Literacy -- 5. Plurilingual Learning and the Development of Learner Autonomy -- 6. Implications and Consequences -- Appendix -- Scoil Bhríde's (Cailíní)'s Language Policy Statement -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350072039
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Little, David, 1942 - Engaging with linguistic diversity London : Sydney, 2019 ISBN 9781350072039
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1350072036
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350072053
URL:
Deutschlandweit zugänglich
Author information:
Little, David 1942-
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