Multilingualism As Opportunity - An Integrated Perspective on English Languages Education in

This book addresses how language is conceptualised in Australian schooling to deliver a better understanding of how multilingualism can be incorporated into everyday teaching and learning, practice and policy.

List of contents

1. Introduction: English, Language(s), and Australian Education
Part One
2. Exploring Context and Possibility in Education Through the Understanding and Undoing of Language
3. On Language and Hospitality: A Practice-Ontological Perspective
4. English in Australia - A Multilingual Subject?
5. Home Languages are Everyone's Business
Part Two
6. Subject English, Multilingualism and Critical Cultural Studies: Relanguaging English Education in Australia towards Postcolonial Possibility
7. Teaching Literature in the Contact Zone: Knowledge, Language and Meaning-Making in Plurilingual Classrooms
8. From EAL Students to Multilingual Learners: Privileging Existing Language Knowledge in Australian Classrooms
9. Rethinking Digital Multimodal Composing by Embracing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in the Classroom
Part Three
10. 'Teachers as Co-Learners' of Languages: Recurricularising Language and Literacy Learning as a Multilingual and Collaborative Endeavour
11. Bringing Reciprocal Multilingual Awareness to Australian Language(s) Education
12. Teaching about Honeybees: Embracing Indigenous Language, Culture, and Content through 'On Country Learning'
13. Multilingualism and Intercultural Development: Transformative Identity within Languages Curriculum
14. Conclusion: Multilingualism as Opportunity

About the author

Marianne Turner is an Associate Professor in the Education Faculty at Monash University. She researches multilingualism and equity in education, with a focus on situated approaches to the leveraging of students' linguistic and cultural resources in the classroom, and the integration of language(s) and content more generally.
Bill Green is Emeritus Professor of Education at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst Campus, New South Wales. He has longstanding research interests in literacy studies and curriculum inquiry, with a particular focus on English curriculum history and theory, and has published widely in these areas.

Product details

• Authors: Marianne (Monash University Turner
• Assisted by: Bill Green (Editor), Turner Marianne (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032767086
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3276708-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Language Experience Approach, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, Sociolinguistics, teacher training, Teaching of a specific subject, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Primary & middle schools, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts