A Multilingual Development Framework For Young Learners

Author : Barbara Hofer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111107714

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A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners by Barbara Hofer Pdf

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.

Author : Alison L. Bailey,Anna V. Osipova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107042445

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Children's Multilingual Development and Education by Alison L. Bailey,Anna V. Osipova Pdf

A study of the beliefs and practices of parents and educators raising future generations of multilingual children.

Author : Eurydice B. Bauer,Mileidis Gort
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136962127

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Early Biliteracy Development by Eurydice B. Bauer,Mileidis Gort Pdf

A large and growing number of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the US and around the world have the potential to develop bilingualism and biliteracy if supported in their immediate environment. At the forefront in focusing exclusively on biliteracy development in early childhood across a variety of languages, this book provides both findings from empirical research with young bilinguals in home and school contexts and practical applications of these findings. Each chapter is structured in a similar format to offer parallel descriptions of the research, including a brief review of related empirical studies, an overview of the methods for data collection and analysis, a description of the main findings, and specific pedagogical implications to support educators’ efforts to construct meaningful, challenging, and dynamic literacy and language learning communities where one or more languages are used for communicating and learning. Pushing the field forward, this book is a valuable resource for helping literacy educators understand and respond to critical issues related to the development of young children’s literate competencies in two languages in home and school contexts.

Author : Laura Portolés Falomir
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501500053

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Multilingualism and Very Young Learners by Laura Portolés Falomir Pdf

This book deals with early multilingual acquisition from a holistic, dynamic, and multilingual perspective. It focuses on the analysis of pragmatic awareness and language attitudes of consecutive multilingual children in relation to other variables, such as the linguistic model or the age factor. This volume makes an important contribution to the field, providing evidence for the Dynamic Model of Multilingualism proposed by Herdina and Jessner.

Author : Danuta Gabryś-Barker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031523717

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Modern Approaches to Researching Multilingualism by Danuta Gabryś-Barker Pdf

Author : Dina C. Castro,Alfredo J. Artiles
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800411869

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Language, Learning, and Disability in the Education of Young Bilingual Children by Dina C. Castro,Alfredo J. Artiles Pdf

Using an interdisciplinary perspective to discuss the intersection of language development and learning processes, this book summarizes current knowledge and represents the most critical issues regarding early childhood research, policy, and practice related to young bilingual children with disabilities. The book begins with a conceptual framework focusing on the intersection between the fields of early childhood education, bilingual education, and special education. It goes on to review and discuss the role of bilingualism in young children’s development and the experiences of young bilingual children with disabilities in early care and education settings, including issues of eligibility and access to care, instruction, and assessment. The book explores family experiences, teacher preparation, accountability, and policy, ending with recommendations for future research which will inform both policies and practices for the education of young bilingual children with disabilities. This timely volume provides valuable guidance for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and researchers.

Author : Oreste Floquet ,Sergio Melogno
Publisher : Sapienza Università Editrice
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788893773119

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Metalinguistic Awareness: Recomposing Cognitive, Linguistic and Cultural Conflicts by Oreste Floquet ,Sergio Melogno Pdf

This volume is dedicated to Maria Antonietta Pinto’s research across the past five decades. The title reflects not only the dominance of metalinguistic awareness in Pinto’s work but also the pathway through which this construct has been elaborated over the years. Under the influence of two great mentors, Jean Piaget for the cognitive aspects, and Renzo Titone for the psycholinguistic aspects, Pinto created an original construct of metalinguistic awareness and instruments to measure it at different developmental stages. The volume pays tribute, among other aspects, to the heuristic value of this construct and its use in international research.

Author : Mila Schwartz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319772288

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Preschool Bilingual Education by Mila Schwartz Pdf

This volume provides an up-to-date collection of key aspects related to current preschool bilingual education research from a socio-linguistic perspective. The focus is on preschool bilingual education in multilingual Europe, which is characterized by diverse language models and children's linguistic backgrounds. The book explores the contemporary perspectives on early bilingual education in light of the threefold theoretical framework of child's, teachers', and parents' agencies in interaction in preschool bilingual education. Five significant theoretical concepts are promoted in this volume: the ecology of language learning, an educational partnership for bilingualism, a notion of agency in early language development and education, language-conducive contexts, and language-conducive strategies. The volume examines preschool bilingual education as embedded in specific socio-cultural contexts on the one hand and highlights its universal features on the other. The book is a fundamental read for scholars and students of second language teaching, preschool education, and bilingual education in multilingual and multicultural societies.

Author : Szilvia Papp,Shelagh Rixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781316638200

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Examining Young Learners: Research and Practice in Assessing the English of School-age Learners by Szilvia Papp,Shelagh Rixon Pdf

An account of how children learn L2s in formal contexts and how that knowledge impacts on the design, development, and evaluation of their language assessment products.

Author : Ruth Fielding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9812874542

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Multilingualism in the Australian Suburbs by Ruth Fielding Pdf

This book introduces a framework for examining bilingual identity and presents the cases of seven individual children from a study of young students' bilingual identities in an Australian primary school. The new Bilingual Identity Negotiation Framework brings together three elements that influence bilingual identity development - sociocultural connection, investment and interaction. The cases comprise individual stories about seven young, bilingual students and are complemented by some more general investigations of bilingual identity from a whole class of students at the school. The framework is explained and supported using the students' stories and offers readers a new concept for examining and thinking about bilingual identity. This book builds upon past and current theories of identity and bilingualism and expands on these to identify three interlinking elements within bilingual identity. The book highlights the need for greater dialogue between different sectors of research and education relating to languages and bilingualism. It adds to the increasing call for collaborative work from the different fields interested in language learning and teaching such as TESOL, bilingualism, and language education. Through the development of the framework and the students' stories in this study, this book shows how multilingual children in one school in Australia developed their identities in association with their home and school languages. This provides readers with a model for examining bilingual identity in their own contexts, or a theoretical construct to consider in their thinking on bilingualism, language and identity.

Author : Laura Portolés Falomir
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501500022

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Multilingualism and Very Young Learners by Laura Portolés Falomir Pdf

This book deals with early multilingual acquisition from a holistic, dynamic, and multilingual perspective. It focuses on the analysis of pragmatic awareness and language attitudes of consecutive multilingual children in relation to other variables, such as the linguistic model or the age factor. This volume makes an important contribution to the field, providing evidence for the Dynamic Model of Multilingualism proposed by Herdina and Jessner.

Author : Mila Schwartz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 939 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030916626

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Handbook of Early Language Education by Mila Schwartz Pdf

This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations. The contributions by leading scholars and practitioners are structured to give a survey of the topic, highlight its importance, and provide a critical stance. The book covers preschool ages, and looks at children belonging to diverse ethno-linguistic groups and experiencing different histories and pathways of their socio-linguistic and socio-cultural development and early education. The languages under the scope of this handbook are identified by the contributors as immigrant languages, indigenous, endangered, heritage, regional, minority, majority, and marginalized, as well as foreign and second languages, all of which are discussed in relation to early language education as the key concept of the handbook. In this volume, “early language education” will refer to any kind of setting, both formal and informal (e.g. nursery, kindergarten, early childhood education centers, complementary early schooling etc.) in which language learning within a context of children's sociolinguistic diversity takes place before elementary school.

Author : Svenja Hammer,Kara Mitchell Viesca,Nancy L. Commins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429860720

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Teaching Content and Language in the Multilingual Classroom by Svenja Hammer,Kara Mitchell Viesca,Nancy L. Commins Pdf

This book brings together research from six different countries across three continents where teacher educators and policy makers are addressing the under-preparation of content teachers to work effectively with multilingual learners. By highlighting this relatively young field of research at an international level, the book advances the research-based knowledge of the field and promotes international research relationships and partnerships to better support the education of multilingual learners and their teachers. The chapters represent high-quality empirical qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies about pre-service and in-service teachers. Comprising four sections, each represents a critical aspect of the equitable teaching of multilingual learners. All the research was conducted in countries that belong to OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) enabling the reader to compare contexts and outcomes. This book will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of language education, teacher education, and education for multilingual learners. It will be of great value to anyone concerned with equity and social justice for multilingual learners whose languages, cultural practices, and resources are often overlooked and/or marginalized in the schools they attend.

Author : Angela Hasselgreen,Gwendydd Caudwell
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 1781794693

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Assessing the Language of Young Learners by Angela Hasselgreen,Gwendydd Caudwell Pdf

This volume offers new insights into the assessment of the language of Young Learners (YLs). YLs are defined here as being from 5 to 17 years, and are treated as three distinct subgroups: younger children (5/6 to 8/9 years), older children (8/9 to 12/13 years) and teenagers (12/13 to 17 years). The first half addresses fundamental issues, beginning with the characteristics of YLs and how these are manifested in first language development. The authors consider the potential ability of each age group to perform in a second or foreign language, proposing a rough age-related correspondence with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) levels. Finally, principles of assessment, specifically formative assessment and testing, are presented in the light of linguistic, cognitive and social development. The second half focuses on testing a range of 'skills'. Theoretical models of performance are introduced, followed by a practical analysis of approaches to the testing of each skill for the three age groups, illustrated with examples. The authors conclude by summing up developmental characteristics of each age group, and their implications for language testing. The book is intended for a wide readership within the field of teaching and assessing the language of young learners. Researchers are offered scope for further investigation of what emerges from the discussion, while practitioners will hopefully find support in their day-to-day work with YLs.

Author : Lynne Cameron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521773256

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Teaching Languages to Young Learners by Lynne Cameron Pdf

This book will develop readers' understanding of children are being taught a foreign language.