A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners : : Early Multi-Competence in South Tyrol / / Barbara Hofer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Hofer, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 27
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXI, 273 p.)

This book presents a new extended framework for the study of early multicompetence. It proposes a concept of multilingual competences as a valuable educational target, and a view of the multilingual learner as a competent language user. The thematic focus is on multilingual skill development in primary schoolers in the trilingual province of South Tyrol, northern Italy. A wide range of topics pertaining to multicompetence building and the special affordances of multilingual pedagogy are explored. Key concepts like language proficiency, native-speakerism, or monolingual classroom bias are subjected to critical analysis.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Structure of the book -- Contents -- Introduction: Terminological and conceptual clarifications -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Multilingual is as multilingual does -- Chapter 2. Multilingualism: Problem, right or resource? -- Chapter 3. Monolingual native speaker vs multilingual norms -- Chapter 4. Rehabilitating Babel – Cultivating a multilingual learning ecology -- Chapter 5. Widening perspectives: Applying CDS Thinking to multilingual competence building -- Chapter 6. The impact of complex factor bundles on the multilingual system -- Part II -- Chapter 7. The study -- Chapter 8. Results -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index