Multilingual Matters imprint: 455 books
Growing Up with Languages
Reflections on Multilingual Childhoods
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
A unique new insight into multilingual families, this book views multilingual childhoods from the point of the child and is based on over 50 interviews with adults who grew up in multilingual settings. The book charts their recollections of their childhoods and includes many different types of families,...
Multilingual Higher Education
Beyond English Medium Orientations
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The general perception that a good command of English is enough to gain access and to be successful in higher education hides the complexity of learning and teaching in multilingual environments, and this book shows that all higher education environments are multilingual to some extent. Strategies...
The Multilingual Turn in Languages Education
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Starting from the key idea that learners and teachers bring diverse linguistic knowledge and resources to education, this book establishes and explores the concept of the ‘multilingual turn’ in languages education and the potential benefits for individuals and societies. It takes account of recent...
Visualising Multilingual Lives
More Than Words
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
This book brings together empirical studies from around the world to help readers gain a better understanding of multilinguals, ranging from small children to elderly people, and their lives. The chapters focus on the multilingual subjects’ identities and the ways in which they are discursively...
Connecting School and the Multilingual Home
Theory and Practice for Rural Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
This book examines the educational gaps that multilingual students in rural communities experience. It argues that responsive, successful relationships between schools and multilingual families are a crucial aspect of all educators’ work and that no single strategy will work for all families. Rural...
Whos Afraid of Multilingual Education?
Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
More than 70 languages are spoken in contemporary Iran, yet all governmental correspondence and educational textbooks must be written in Farsi. To date, the Iranian mother tongue debate has remained far from the international scholarly exchanges of ideas about multilingual education. This book bridges...
Multilingual Universities in South Africa
Reflecting Society in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Focusing on the use of African languages in higher education, this book showcases South African higher education practitioners’ attempts to promote a multilingual ethos in their classes. It is a first-time overview of multilingual teaching and learning strategies that have been tried and tested...
Flexible Multilingual Education
Putting Children's Needs First
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children’s needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children’s actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages...
Academic Biliteracies
Multilingual Repertoires in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Research on academic literacy within higher education has focused almost exclusively on the development of academic literacy in English. This book is unique in showing how students use other languages when they engage with written academic content – whether in reading, discussing or writing –...
Teaching and Learning in Multilingual Contexts
Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
It is clearly illogical to search for one good, universal solution for multilingual education when educational contexts differ so widely due to demographic and social factors. The situation is further complicated by the motivations of learners and teachers, and by attitudes towards multilingualism...
CLIL in Higher Education
Towards a Multilingual Language Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
This book offers a unique view of multilingualism in higher education from a global perspective. It presents a contextualised case of a multilingual language policy which takes the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach. The volume discusses various approaches to multilingual education...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
With growing mass migration across the globe, researchers, practitioners, educators and policy makers are increasingly faced with rising numbers of multilingual children and adults. This volume raises key issues surrounding the evaluation of language abilities and proficiency in multilingual speakers,...
The Multilingual Reality
Living with Languages
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual societies and language communities in the margins, who are trapped in a vicious circle of disadvantage. It analyses the social, psychological and sociolinguistic processes...
by Julia Festman, Gregory J. Poarch, Dr. Jean-Marc Dewaele
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Have you ever been told that raising your child to speak multiple languages will harm their development? Are teachers or other professionals suspicious of your efforts? Are you sometimes unsure if you are helping your child’s language development, or are you uncertain where to start? It is increasingly...