Multilingualism in European Language Education

This book explores how different European education systems manage multilingualism. Each chapter focuses on one of ten diverse settings and considers how its education system is influenced by historical, sociolinguistic and political processes and how it handles languages, stressing the challenges and opportunities.

About the author

Cecilio Lapresta-Rey is Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Sociology at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. His areas of research are the construction of identity in multicultural and multilingual contexts and the linguistic attitudes of schoolchildren, especially the descendants of migrants, and their sociolinguistic and socioeducational integration.
Ángel Huguet is Professor in the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. His research interests include bilingual and multilingual education, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Cecilio Lapresta-Rey
• Assisted by: Huguet Angel (Editor), Cecilio Lapresta-Rey (Editor)
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingua
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system