Overview
This volume brings together research carried out in a variety of geographic and linguistic contexts including Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States and explores efforts to incorporate linguistic diversity into education and to ‘harness’ this diversity for learners’ benefit. It challenges the largely anachronistic ideology that promotes exclusive use of an educational monolingual standard variety and advocates the use in formal education of aboriginal/indigenous languages, minority languages, nonstandard varieties and contact languages. The contributors examine both historical and current practices for including linguistic diversity in education by considering specific bidialectal, bilingual and multilingual educational initiatives. The different geographical and linguistic settings covered in the volume are linked together by a unifying theme: linguistic diversity exists all over the world, but it is very rarely utilized effectively for the benefit of students. When it is used, whether in isolated studies or through governmental initiatives, the research findings point systematically to the many educational advantages experienced by linguistically-diverse students. This book will be of interest to teachers and language practitioners, as well as to students and scholars of language and education.
Full Product Details
Author: Androula Yiakoumetti
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition: New edition
Volume: 5
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.50cm
Weight: 0.480kg
ISBN: 9783034307260
ISBN 10: 3034307268
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 21 May 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
(...) el resenado es un excelente volumen que muestra la necesidad de incorporar la variacion linguistica a la educacion, revirtiendo el monolitismo tradicional. (Victor M. Longa, Encuentro 15, 2013/15)
(...) el resenado es un excelente volumen que muestra la necesidad de incorporar la variacion lingueistica a la educacion, revirtiendo el monolitismo tradicional. (Victor M. Longa, Encuentro 15, 2013/15)
Author Information
Androula Yiakoumetti is an applied linguist at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on regional and social variation within linguistic systems and, more specifically, on the implications of such variation for education. She is interested in sociolinguistic aspects of linguistic variation and works within the research fields of multidialectism and multilingualism, second-language acquisition and language-teacher development. Her publications span a variety of language issues including bidialectism, language attitudes, learning of English as a foreign language and language-teacher training.
