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Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy

Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy

Brutt-Griffler, Janina
Varghese, Manka

Hardcover

Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, Book 47

General ReferenceLinguisticsBilingual Education

ISBN10: 1853597554
ISBN13: 9781853597558
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: Oct 22 2004
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy brings an understanding of language as a social practice, and bilingualism as the study of bidirectional transitioning, to the examination of bilingual settings in the US, Europe and developing countries. The volume suggests that language pedagogy needs to reflect new understandings of bilinguals. Focusing both on bilingual linguistic competence and educational politics and practice, the chapters provide valuable practical proposals and models for developing sociocultural and linguistic competencies among bilingual practitioners and students. The volume situates teachers as mediators and explores the key roles that they have as language and content educators. In discussing the experiences of learners, it takes up the linguistic competence of bilinguals, highlighting how their language use constitutes a resource for meeting the demands of social interactions, and foregrounds the significance of developing academic language proficiency in English among minority children to decrease the barriers facing them in residential and academic settings.

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