Rethinking Heritage Language Education

This collection presents new investigations into the role of heritage languages and the correlation between culture and language from a pedagogic and cosmopolitical point of view.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Series editors' preface; Introduction Peter Pericles; 1. Mainstreaming plurilingualism - restructuring heritage language provision in schools Jim Cummings; 2. Teaching heritage language learners - a study of programme profiles, practices and needs Maria Carreira; 3. Rethinking heritage languages - ideologies, identities, practices and priorities in Canada and China Patricia A. Duff and Duanduan Li; 4. The place of heritage languages in language education in Australia - a conceptual challenge Angela Scarino; 5. Courses in the language and culture of origin and their impact on youth development in cultural transition - a study amongst immigrant and dual-heritage youth in Switzerland Elena Makarova; 6. Language policies in the context of Australian civic pluralism Eugenia Arvanitis, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope; 7. Communities taking the lead - mapping heritage language education assets Themistoklis Aravossitas; 8. Overcoming challenges of language choice in heritage language development amongst multilingual immigrant families James C. Kigamwa; 9. The impact of the CEFR on Canada's linguistic plurality - a space for heritage languages? Enrica Piccardo; 10. Strengthening our teacher community - consolidating a 'signature pedagogy' for the teaching of Spanish as heritage language María Luisa Parra; 11. Canada's 'other' language - the role of non-official languages in ethnic persistence Jack Jedwab; 12. Rethinking heritage language in a critical pedagogy framework Panayota Gounari.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Pericles (Ontario Institute for St Trifonas, Peter Pericles Aravossitas Trifonas
• Assisted by: Themistoklis Aravossitas (Editor), Themistoklis (University of Athens Aravossitas (Editor), Peter Trifonas (Editor), Peter Pericles Trifonas (Editor), Peter Pericles (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) Trifonas (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2014
• EAN: 9781107437623
• ISBN: 978-1-107-43762-3
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Faculty of Education; Faculty of Education; Cambridge Education Research
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology