Multilingual Classroom Ecologies
Drawing on studies from different multilingual communities in different parts of the world, the volume demonstrates the complex nature of the multilingual classroom, and in so doing provides a number of interdisciplinary perspectives for an international audience. The contributions to the volume are located within an ecological framework, one that emphasises the inter-relationships between languages and their speakers in multilingual and multi-cultural classrooms, the dynamics of multilingual...
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This text contains nine papers presented in a colloquium at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism held in Bristol, UK, in April 2001, exploring the complexities of multilingual classrooms; a tenth paper was added for this volume. Written by ten international scholars, the selections explore aspects of the interactions and interrelationships between teachers and learners, the underlying ideologies within the classroom or school contexts, and how discourses within and between the micro and macro levels of education are institutionally and societally reproduced. No subject index. Distributed by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Multilingual Classroom Ecologies: Inter-relationships, Interactions and Ideologies1Legal Discourse and Decisions, Teacher Policymaking and the Multilingual Classroom: Constraining and Supporting Khmer/English Biliteracy in the United States8Interactions and Inter-relationships Around Text: Practices and Positionings in a Multilingual Classroom in Brunei25Talk Around Text: Literacy Practices, Cultural Identity and Authority in a Corsican Bilingual Classroom42Language, Ethnicity and the Mediation of Allegations of Racism: Negotiating Diversity and Sameness in Multilingual School Discourses61Constructing Discursive Practices in School and Community: Bilingualism, Gender and Power77'Baro Afkaaga Hooyo!' A Case Study of Somali Literacy Teaching in Liverpool93Bilingual Resources and 'Funds of Knowledge' for Teaching and Learning in Multi-ethnic Classrooms in Britain107Foreign-born Teachers in the Multilingual Classroom in Sweden: The Role of Attitudes to Foreign Accent123Afterword: Ecology and Ideology in Multilingual Classrooms136
