Bilingualism and multilingualism

The growing number of bilingual students in public schools coupled with a critical shortage of teachers specially prepared to serve this population calls for a critical examination of policies and practices in bilingual and ESL teacher preparation.

Over the last twenty years, sociolinguistic research on multilingualism has been transformed.

Designed for pre-service and novice teachers in ELT, What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volumes I, II, and III are companion textbooks organized around the key question: What do teachers need to know and be able to do in order to help their students to learn English?

This Handbook discusses the theoretical and disciplinary background to the study of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education worldwide.

As college classrooms have become more linguistically diverse, the work of ESOL professionals has expanded to include research on the experiences of multilingual learners not only in ESOL courses but also in courses across the curriculum.

Effective Curriculum for Teaching L2 Writing sets out a clear big picture for curricular thinking about L2 writing pedagogy and offers a step-by-step guide to curriculum design with practical examples and illustrations.

Psycholinguistics - the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language - had a strong monolingual orientation during the first four decades following its emergence around 1950.

This book marks a new development in the field of second language acquisition research.

The field of second/foreign language teacher education is calling out for a coherent and comprehensive framework for teacher preparation in these times of accelerating economic, cultural, and educational globalization.

This book presents a nuanced look at the relationship between language learning styles and culture to illuminate how these important constructs are understood, employed and play out in the real world.

How can English language teachers contribute to peace locally and globally?

Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities.

Drawing on the underrepresentation of the Global South in global knowledge production with a focus on the existing inequalities, the book highlights the importance of postcolonial narratives within Global Southern epistemologies in English language teaching (ELT) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

Corpus Perspectives on the Spoken Models used by EFL Teachers illustrates the key principles and practical guidelines for the design and exploitation of corpora for classroom-based research.

This volume brings together the current theoretical interest in reconceptualizing second and foreign language learning from a sociocultural perspective on language and learning, with practical concerns about second and foreign language pedagogy.

Aviation English investigates the key issues related to the use of English for the purpose of communication in aviation and analyses the current research on language training, testing and assessment in the area of Aviation English.

Instill a love of poetry in your classroom with the illuminating and inviting lessons from Teach This Poem classroom activities.

Huttner and Dalton-Puffer present research demonstrating the tangible benefits of the long-term sustainability of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) on participants' educational outcomes.

Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation, and Development describes the language testing practice that exists in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in the language testing and assessment literature.

There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs.

Today's growing mobility in European urban regions results in a more widespread language diversity, which is increasingly challenging current language policies.

This book reflects on the myriad ways in which forms of exclusion and inclusion play out in narratives of migration, focusing on the case of Northern Italian narratives in today's superdiverse Italy.

This book provides a wealth of insights into the use of technology to deliver university courses with English as the medium of instruction (EMI).

This book examines one-way foreign language immersion education in the United States.

Focuses on the purposes of bilingual education programs in schools and their historical development from the 1960s to the present.

Innovative and accessible, this book provides a roadmap for designing school environments that address the needs of English learners (ELs).

In contemporary educational research, practice and policy, 'indigenous women' have emerged as an important focus in the global education arena and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

This unique state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, systematic discussion of second language (L2) writing and L2 learning.

This edited volume unpacks the familiar concepts of language, literacy and learning, and promotes dialogue and bridge building within and across these concepts.

A state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, presenting revision of an influential model alongside new empirical studies.

With the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity of students in U.

This volume gives language teachers, software designers, and researchers who wish to use technology in second or foreign language education the information they need to absorb what has been achieved so far and to make sense of it.

This book draws on original research and a language based pedagogy approach to examine how secondary schools in the UK can devise and implement coherent language and literacy across curriculum policies and strategies, so that grammar and associated metalanguage becomes an integral part of their day to day curriculum practices.

This expanded edition of the International Multilingual Research Journal's recent special issue on translanguaging - or the dynamic, normative languaging practices of bilinguals - presents a powerful, comprehensive volume on current scholarship on this topic.

This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia.

How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners?

Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.

Written for prospective and practicing visual arts, music, drama, and dance educators, Teaching the Arts to Engage English Language Learners offers guidance for engaging ELLs, alongside all learners, through artistic thinking.

This book focuses on the international and educational context of ethnic communities and their language varieties in the Netherlands.

Wenn bilinguale Sprecher miteinander kommunizieren, verwenden sie nicht nur eine Sprache, sondern alternieren häufig zwischen den ihnen zur Verfügung stehenden Varietäten, um ihr gesamtes sprachliches Repertoire optimal auszunutzen.

This volume sets out to investigate the linguistic ecologies of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai, with chapters that combine empirical and theoretical approaches to the sociolinguistics of multilingualism.

This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically.