Flexible Multilingual Education ：Putting Children's Needs First ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Putting Children's Needs First

Publication series ：1

Author： Weber   Jean-Jacques  

Publisher： Channel View Publications‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781783092000

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781783091980

Subject： H09 Chinese teaching

Keyword： 语言、文字,语言学

Language： ENG

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Description

This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children’s needs and interests above the individual languages involved. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today’s world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Part 1

2 Using Non-standard Varieties in Education

3 The Issue of Access

4 What Makes and Breaks a Good Language-in-Education Policy?

Part 2

5 The United States of America

6 Hong Kong and China

7 Singapore

8 South Africa

9 Luxembourg

10 Three Autonomous Communities of Spain: Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia

11 Conclusion

References

Author Index

Subject Index

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