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Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts

Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts

Hardcover

Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights, Book 19

General ReferenceLinguisticsSpecial Education

ISBN10: 1800413580
ISBN13: 9781800413580
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: Sep 6 2021
Pages: 417
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

A ground-breaking and topical commentary from a leading thinker within the field of multilingual education.

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility of critiques they have generated, using the criteria of empirical adequacy, logical coherence, and consequential validity.

These criteria of theoretical legitimacy are also applied to the evaluation of two different versions of translanguaging theory - Unitary Translanguaging Theory and Crosslinguistic Translanguaging Theory - in a way that significantly clarifies this controversial concept.

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