Flexible Multilingual Education - Putting Children's Needs First

This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and interests above the individual languages involved. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today's world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.

About the author

Jean-Jacques Weber is Professor of English and Education at the University of Luxembourg. His research interests include discourse analysis, and multilingualism and education, and he has recently co-authored Introducing Multilingualism (2012) and co-edited Multilingualism and Multimodality (2013).

Summary

This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children’s needs and interests above the individual languages involved. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today’s world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Jacques Weber, Jean-Jacques Weber
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.05.2014
• EAN: 9781783091997
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-199-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 217 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 398 g
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language a
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology