Flexible Multilingual Education : : Putting Children's Needs First / / Jean-Jacques Weber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Weber, Jean-Jacques,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children's actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages that students need for their educational and professional success. It argues that, as more and more children grow up multilingually in our globalised world, there is a need for more nuanced multilingual solutions in language-in-education policies. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education - rather than mother tongue education - is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today's world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 -- 2 Using Non-standard Varieties in Education -- 3 The Issue of Access -- 4 What Makes and Breaks a Good Language-in-Education Policy? -- Part 2 -- 5 The United States of America -- 6 Hong Kong and China -- 7 Singapore -- 8 South Africa -- 9 Luxembourg -- 10 Three Autonomous Communities of Spain: Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia -- 11 Conclusion -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index