Minority languages and multilingual education : bridging the local and the global /
Durk Gorter, Victoria Zenotz, Jasone Cenoz, editors.
- Dordrecht : Springer, (c)2014.
- xi, 220 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
- Educational linguistics ; volume 18 .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: minority language education facing major local and global challenges -- Adopting a multilingual habitus: What North and South can learn from each other about the essential role of non-dominant languages in education -- Model for trilingual education in the People's Republic of China -- Margins, diversity and achievement: System-wide data and implementation of multilingual education in Ethiopia -- A new model of bilingualism for Singapore: Multilingualism in the 21st century -- Language education and Canada's Indigenous peoples -- Policy and teaching English to Palestinian students in Israel: An ecological perspective to language education policies -- Interethnic understanding and the teaching of local languages in Sri Lanka -- Dynamic multimodal language practices in multilingual indigenous Sami classrooms in Finland -- Balancing the languages in Maori-medium education in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Critical classroom practices: Using English to foster minoritized languages and cultures in Oaxaca, Mexico -- Multilingualism and European minority languages: The case of Basque.
This book presents research on the situation minority language school children face when they need to learn languages of international communication, in particular English. The book takes minority languages as a starting point and it bridges local and global perspectives in the analysis of multilingual education contexts. It examines the interaction of minority languages and cultures, majority languages and lingua franca-s in a variety of settings across different regions and countries on all continents. Even though all chapters in this book involve minority languages, the issues discussed are relevant to any context in which more than language is used in education. The book reveals challenges and opportunities of multilingual education by discussing issues such as Northern and Southern concepts, language education policies, language diversity, interethnic understanding, multimodal language practices, power, conflict, identity and prestige, among many others.