Multilingualism as Opportunity: An Integrated Perspective on English and Languages Education in Australia

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.

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.