Plurilingualism in Teaching and Learning: Complexities Across Contexts

Plurilingualism in Teaching and Learning provides a close look into the possibilities and constraints in taking up a plurilingual stance within the unique dynamics that constitute particular spaces of teaching and learning across a range of educational settings, age groups, and institutional models. The bookis designed to help researchers and educators clarify and strengthen their understandings of the links between language and literacy and to think more deeply, rigorously and critically about their orientations, beliefs, values and approaches to language teaching, Contributors clearly state their own understanding of what plurilingualism means in relation to their respective contexts. By seeing how researchers tease out and analyze the complex dynamics—including the interactions between policy, practice, resources and the positions of different stakeholder groups—that crisscross particular teaching and learning contexts, readers are engaged in examining their own beliefs and practices and what language ideologies shape them, The book supports teacher reflection and action in practical way which takes account of the complex realities of educational settings.