An International Perspective on Language Policies, Practices and Proficiencies
Author | : Denis Cunningham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : 9789737742209 |
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Author | : Denis Cunningham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : 9789737742209 |
Author | : Lydia Sciriha |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 144389236X |
The seventeen chapters brought together in this volume represent a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Bilingualism held in March 2015 at the University of Malta’s Valletta campus. The multifaceted nature of the conference is evident in the diverse viewpoints from a range of authors who analyse aspects of the linguistic situations in Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Macau, Malta, Poland, Romania, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom. The volume comprises chapters on Code-Switching, Linguistic Landscape, Bilingualism, Culture and Identity, Language Policy, Bilingual Education, and Trilingualism. This book is a valuable resource not only for students and scholars, but also for language teachers interested in the variegated nature of bilingualism in various countries in Europe, Asia, and South America.
Author | : Kathryn J. Lindholm-Leary |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781853595318 |
Dual language education is a program that combines language minority and language majority students for instruction through two languages. This book provides the conceptual background for the program and discusses major implementation issues. Research findings summarize language proficiency and achievement outcomes from 8000 students at 20 schools, along with teacher and parent attitudes.
Author | : Bernard Spolsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods and agencies for language management. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and language professionals in linguistics, education and politics.
Author | : Anthony Liddicoat |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1847690637 |
Language problems potentially exist at all levels of human activity, including he local contaxts of communities & institutions. This volume explores the ways in which language planning works as a local activity in a wide variety of contexts around the world & deals with a wide range of language planning issues.
Author | : Eric Enongene Ekembe |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2023-02-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3031143108 |
This book is about the policy-practice praxis in English language education, and draws on research from a diverse range of under-explored international settings to showcase the importance of contextual realities on how policy and practice interact. The case studies covered in the volume come from five continents (Africa, Europe, Asia, and South and North America) and cover 11 countries in total. The authors cover a wide range of themes and identify a number of issues at the interface between policy and practice. In some cases they also highlight local initiatives for navigating these issues, providing contextually-grounded guidance and experience which will be of use to teachers and teacher trainers in other settings. This book will be of interest to policy makers, EMI researchers, ELT practitioners, teacher trainers and trainees, and the broader Applied Linguistics research community.
Author | : Martin East |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9811909911 |
This open access book presents an account of five teacher educators who, over a two-year period, undertook a research project with five teachers of languages other than English in pre-secondary schools in New Zealand. Their collaborative aim was to develop students’ intercultural capability in the context of learning a new language. The school participants were typical of many in New Zealand’s pre-secondary sector; the teachers had limited language-teaching experience and limited prior knowledge of how to develop the intercultural dimension in their language classrooms, and the students were largely at the beginning stages of learning a new language. The book discusses the findings obtained using a range of data collection methods, including classroom observations, reflective interviews with teachers, and focus groups with students. It documents instances of breakthrough and growth for teachers and students and reveals the problems and tensions. Lastly, it reflects on the lessons learned in the course of this project and speculates on the roles that teacher education needs to play if the goal of intercultural capability is to be better achieved in language classrooms, both in New Zealand and internationally. Of interest to a wide range of stakeholders in the area of education, the book allows readers to gain an understanding of the opportunities of working with teachers through an action–research model, alongside the challenges that this brings and ways in which intercultural capability may be strengthened.
Author | : Martin East |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2016-02-02 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9811003033 |
This book presents an in‐depth study of assessment innovation and its impact on teaching and learning. The context is New Zealand, and the focus is additional languages other than English and the recent introduction of a radical new assessment of students’ spoken proficiency, called interact. The book crosses the traditional theoretical and methodological boundaries associated with language testing research, which focuses on assessment performance, and presents an alternative approach where stakeholders become the centre of interest. It advances our understanding of how assessment innovation impacts on two key groups - teachers and students in schools - based on data collected from a substantial two‐year research project. It presents an account of these stakeholders’ perceptions of the validity and usefulness of the new assessment in comparison with the more traditional test that it has replaced.Assessing Foreign Language Students' Spoken Proficiency makes an outstanding and original contribution to the field of second and foreign language teaching, providing a theory and research-based account of the development of a learner-centred approach to oral proficiency assessment. It is an important resource for teachers and teacher educators as well as assessment and curriculum specialists worldwide. It deserves to be widely read.
Author | : Troy McConachy |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1783099348 |
Many language teachers recognise the importance of integrating intercultural learning into language learning, but how this can be best achieved is not always apparent. This is particularly the case in foreign language learning contexts where teachers are working with a prescribed textbook and opportunities to use the language outside the classroom are limited. This book argues that teachers can work creatively with conventional resources and utilise classroom experiences in order to help learners interpret aspects of communication in insightful ways and develop awareness of the influence of cultural assumptions and values on language use. The book provides extensive analysis of a range of classroom interactions to demonstrate how teachers and learners can work together to construct opportunities for intercultural learning through reflection on pragmatics.
Author | : Robert B. Kaplan |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1847690289 |
This volume covers the language situation in the Baltic States, Ireland and Italy explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation - including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages.