Overview

This book explores alternative approaches to foreign language education in a context which is traditionally dominated by English-only approaches, and widely viewed as highly monolingual. It examines the grassroots classroom practices of teachers and their assistants involved in plurilingual education in the first longitudinal research of its type in the Japanese context. These practices are grounded in depictions of the practitioners' personal and professional trajectories through explorations of their visual linguistic autobiographies. The holistic ethnography thus deepens understanding of plurilingualism in a hitherto underexplored context, and should be of interest to students and researchers of language teaching, teacher training, language policy, sociolinguistics and plurilingualism.

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Author:   Daniel Roy Pearce
Publisher:   Multilingual Matters
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781800417694

ISBN 10:   1800417691
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   20 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Danièle Moore: Foreword Chapter 1. Foreign Language Education and Plurilingualism: Global and Local Trends       Chapter 2. Multimodal Polyethnography in Language Teaching Research Chapter 3. Situating the Author: “Wearing Both Pairs of Shoes”   Chapter 4. From English-Only to Plurilingual Education: Yuki-Sensei’s Journey Chapter 5. Making The Classroom Multilingual: Yuki-Sensei’s Practice      Chapter 6. A 'Monolingual' Foreign Language Teacher: Kana-Sensei's Initiative             Chapter 7. Pedagogies of Resistance, Peace Learning, and Plurilingualism: Kana-Sensei's Practice   Chapter 8. Imported Diversity? Plurilingual Assistant Language Teachers Chapter 9. Beyond Native-Speakerism: Alts as More than English Models Conclusion: Implications for Teacher Training Across Contexts    

Reviews

This book presents illuminating cases of practitioners promoting grassroots plurilingual education even in a context traditionally portrayed as being monolingual. Analyzing rich multimodal data, Pearce successfully helps readers see a more diverse reality of the country than is commonly believed and offers educational possibilities that can be explored outside the context as well. * Chika Takahashi, Ehime University, Japan * If you thought Japan was monolingual, think again! Daniel Roy Pearce shows how the intricacies of Japanese social and individual multilingualism can be used in the classroom to counter monolingualism and monolingualization. Bringing a unique multisensorial and multimodal approach to research, combining autoethnography and polyethnography, this volume is unsettling and inspiring for researchers and practitioners alike. * Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, University of Hamburg, Germany *

This book presents illuminating cases of practitioners promoting grassroots plurilingual education even in a context traditionally portrayed as being monolingual. Analyzing rich multimodal data, Pearce successfully helps readers see a more diverse reality of the country than is commonly believed and offers educational possibilities that can be explored outside the context as well. * Chika Takahashi, Ehime University, Japan *

Author Information

Daniel Roy Pearce is a lecturer and teacher trainer in the Faculty of Education, Shitennoji University, Japan. His current research interests include interdisciplinary plurilingual education, teacher collaboration, and plurilingualism and linguistic diversity within primarily monolingual contexts.

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