Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century - Building on Experience

This book includes the work of specialists working in various educational contexts to create comprehensive coverage of current bilingual initiatives. Themes covered include issues in language use in classrooms; participant perspectives on bilingual education experiences; and the language needs of bi-/multilingual students in monolingual schools.

About the author

Christian Abello-Contesse is Associate Professor at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, where he teaches courses in second language acquisition, foreign-language teaching methodology, bilingualism and multilingualism, bilingual education and intercultural communication.
Paul M. Chandler is Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. His areas of interest are teacher development, second language reading and second language acquisition.
María Dolores López-Jiménez is Assistant Professor at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain. Her main research interests include vocabulary teaching and learning, materials design and evaluation, and second language acquisition.
Rubén Chacón-Beltrán is Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid, Spain, where he teaches undergraduate courses in English as a foreign language and sociolinguistics, and graduate seminars in bilingualism and language policy.

Summary

This book includes the work of specialists working in various educational contexts to create comprehensive coverage of current bilingual initiatives. Themes covered include issues in language use in classrooms; participant perspectives on bilingual education experiences; and the language needs of bi-/multilingual students in monolingual schools.

Product details

• Authors: Christián Abello Contesse, Christian Abello-Contesse
• Assisted by: Christian Abello-Contesse (Editor), Ruben Chacon-Beltran (Editor), Paul M. Chandler (Editor), Maria Dolores Lopez-Jimenez (Editor), María Dolores López-Jiménez (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2013
• EAN: 9781783090693
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-069-3
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 532 g
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures