Managing Language Diversity

Author : David Little,Constant Leung,Piet Van Avermaet
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783090822

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Managing Diversity in Education by David Little,Constant Leung,Piet Van Avermaet Pdf

Diversity - social, cultural, linguistic and ethnic - poses a challenge to all educational systems. Some authorities, schools and teachers look upon it as a problem, an obstacle to the achievement of national educational goals, while for others it offers new opportunities. Successive PISA reports have laid bare the relative lack of success in addressing the needs of diverse school populations and helping children develop the competences they need to succeed in society. The book is divided into three parts that deal in turn with policy and its implications, pedagogical practice, and responses to the challenge of diversity that go beyond the language of schooling. This volume features the latest research from eight different countries, and will appeal to anyone involved in the educational integration of immigrant children and adolescents.

Author : David Little,Constant Leung,Piet Van Avermaet
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783090808

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Managing Diversity in Education by David Little,Constant Leung,Piet Van Avermaet Pdf

Diversity - social, cultural, linguistic and ethnic - poses a challenge to all educational systems. This book aims to address these issues by examining current policy and its implications, pedagogical practice and responses to the challenge of diversity that go beyond the language of schooling. This volume will appeal to anyone involved in the educational integration of immigrant children and adolescents.

Author : Sue Wright,Helen Kelly-Holmes,Michael G. Clyne
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853594156

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Managing Language Diversity by Sue Wright,Helen Kelly-Holmes,Michael G. Clyne Pdf

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Author : Lionel Laroche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136385193

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Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions by Lionel Laroche Pdf

'Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions' provides managers of technical professionals with clear and tested strategies to improve communication and increase productivity among culturally diverse technical professionals, teams, and departments. Dr. Laroche outlines the differences in education and training, career expectations, communication styles, and management expectations in countries around the world. He explains cross-cultural concepts and presents his case for the importance of cross-cultural competence supported by hard data, including charts, tables, and readily accessible schematics. You'll benefit from the author's experience and expertise as a manager and consultant in this area, illustrated by numerous anecdotes, critical incidents, and mini case studies, centered around two central themes: * Most technical professionals do not recognize the impact of cultural differences in their work * Cross-cultural issues lead to a significant under-utilization of talent and affect productivity negatively 'Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions' offers proven tactics for improving your personal effectiveness and the efficiency of your multicultural teams, breaking the communication barrier in the multicultural workplace.

Author : Sue Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language and education
ISBN : OCLC:1063239729

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Managing Language Diversity by Sue Wright Pdf

Author : Jiří Nekvapil,Tamah Sherman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Intercultural communication
ISBN : 3631582633

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Language Management in Contact Situations by Jiří Nekvapil,Tamah Sherman Pdf

The authors of this volume analyze language contact situations emerging in East and Central Europe, Australia, and Japan. The individual chapters focus on language problems which appear in concrete interactions between speakers of various languages. The objective of the book is to demonstrate the capacity of the language management framework on the basis of highly diversified empirical material and thus aid in the solving of similar language problems which arise in different types of intercultural contact. The chapters contribute to the forming of a new approach to the processes underlying linguistic diversity, covering both its micro and macro aspects.

Author : David Corson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135662981

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Language Diversity and Education by David Corson Pdf

This introductory text for students of linguistics, language, and education provides background and up-to-date information and resources that beginning researchers need for studying language diversity and education. Three framing chapters offer an update on the philosophy of social research, revealing how important language is for all the processes of learning in which humans engage, whether it is learning about the world through education, or learning about the nature of social life through research in the human sciences. These chapters also review the links between language, power, and social justice, and look at dynamic changes occurring in "language diversity and education" research. Four central chapters give state-of-the-art, comprehensive coverage to the chief areas of language diversity that affect the practice of education: standard and non-standard varieties; different cultural discourse norms; bilingual and ESL education; and gendered discourse norms. This book is intended for graduate students of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, the social psychology of language, anthropological linguistics, and other related disciplines; and graduate students of education, including in-service teachers taking advanced professional development courses. Special features enhance its usefulness as a text for courses in these areas: * A clear, jargon free writing style invites careful reading. * All ideas are well within the range that graduate students in the language disciplines or in education can relate to their work, but theoretical ideas are kept to a necessary minimum and linked with practical examples in every case. * Extensive references guide readers to the book's up-to-date, international, and cross-cultural bibliography. * "Discussion Starter" questions at the end of each chapter highlight key points and stimulate informed, reflective discussion.

Author : Georges Lüdi,Katharina Höchle Meier,Patchareerat Yanaprasart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266408

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Managing Plurilingual and Intercultural Practices in the Workplace by Georges Lüdi,Katharina Höchle Meier,Patchareerat Yanaprasart Pdf

The contributions in this volume stem from different lines of research and represent both a continuation and an advancement of the European DYLAN project. The book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and plurilingual repertoires as well as the ways in which cultural diversity is managed in companies and institutions in Switzerland. Characterised by official quadrilingualism, but also by new dimensions of multilingualism resulting from massive immigration, important workforce mobility and increasing globalisation, Switzerland offers an ideal laboratory for studying phenomena linked to multilingualism and cultural diversity. On the one hand, a special focus is put on the best practices of diversity management and language regimes with particular attention paid to the interplay between official languages and English, and to ways of leveraging diversity awareness, fostering cultural inclusiveness and enhancing intercultural learning in vocational education and training. On the other hand, the chapters examine at close range the way actors' plurilingual repertoires are developed and how their use is adapted to particular objectives and specific conditions. Being observed in several types of multilingual professional settings, the plurilingual strategies, including English as lingua franca, are particularly examined in terms of power relations and processes of inclusion or exclusion.

Author : Michalle E. Mor Barak
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483386119

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Managing Diversity by Michalle E. Mor Barak Pdf

Winner of the George R. Terry Book Award from Academy of Management and the Outstanding Academic Title Award from CHOICE Magazine Successful management of our increasingly diverse workforce is one of the most important challenges facing organizations today. In the Fourth Edition of her award-winning text, Managing Diversity, author Michàlle E. Mor Barak argues that inclusion is the key to unleashing the potential embedded in a multicultural workforce. This thoroughly updated new edition includes the latest research, statistics, policy, and case examples. A new chapter on inclusive leadership explores the diversity paradox and unpacks how leaders can leverage diversity to increase innovation and creativity for competitive advantage. A new chapter devoted to “Practical Steps for Creating an Inclusive Workplace” presents a four-stage intervention and implementation model with accompanying scales that can been used to assess inclusion in the workplace, making this the most practical edition ever.

Author : Sierk Horn,Philippe Lecomte,Susanne Tietze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429775031

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Managing Multilingual Workplaces by Sierk Horn,Philippe Lecomte,Susanne Tietze Pdf

This book sets new trajectories for language-sensitive business and management research and pedagogy. The existence of language plurality characterises these. Empirical studies have been established as important and relevant for contemporary research. It has shifted language-sensitive research from the periphery to the centre of international management research. However, this field is rapidly changing, and new thematic approaches have begun to emerge. By addressing this, the book offers genuine and more nuanced insights into existing themes and comes with applications of emergent conceptual developments in different settings. The second part of the book covers methodologies and gives examples and cutting-edge insights into the role of translation in the execution of empirical research and theorising arising from it. Finally, the book draws together innovative ways of how to address the challenges of a multilingual teaching classroom and how to innovate in order to incorporate such diversity through pedagogic practice. This book provides a source that unites insights from multilingual empirical research, methodological considerations and pedagogic practice in order to advance knowledge and debate. It will be a ‘handy source’ of information that offers direct access to the latest guidance on language-sensitive management challenges. It will, therefore, appeal to an internationally-minded and mobile audience, including scholars, students and decision-makers.

Author : Anne-Claude Berthoud,François Grin,Georges Lüdi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271372

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Exploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism by Anne-Claude Berthoud,François Grin,Georges Lüdi Pdf

This book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and its uses in a context of rapid changes, in Europe and around the world. All types of organisations, including the political institutions of the European Union, universities and private-sector companies must rise to the many challenges posed by operating in a multilingual environment. This requires them, in particular, to make the best use of speakers’ very diverse linguistic repertoires. The contributions in this volume, which stem from the DYLAN research project financed by the European Commission as part of its Sixth Framework Programme, examine at close range how these repertoires develop, how they change and how actors adapt skilfully the use of their repertoires to different objectives and conditions. These different strategies are also examined in terms of their capacity to ensure efficient and fair communication in a multilingual Europe. Careful observation of actors’ multilingual practices reveals finely tuned communicational strategies drawing on a wide range of different languages, including national languages, minority languages and lingue franche. Understanding these practices, their meaning and their implications, helps to show in what way and under what conditions they are not merely a response to a problem, but an asset for political institutions, universities and business.

Author : Natalie Victoria Wilmot
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800415942

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Language Management by Natalie Victoria Wilmot Pdf

This book draws on case studies of language management within British organisations to examine the decisions they make about language diversity in their professional communications in order to be successful in a multilingual world. It explores the practices that the organisations use to manage language diversity in interorganisational relationships, and why certain practices occur in some situations and not others. The book highlights how organisations rely on individual employees to perform a variety of language tasks and the implications of this; the effect of English as a global lingua franca; and the translation challenges which organisations face. The book demonstrates that practices to manage language diversity are often a result of the resources organisations have at given moments in time, rather than being part of a deliberate language management strategy.

Author : Deirdre Martin
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847691590

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Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity by Deirdre Martin Pdf

Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity offers a new approach to understanding the familiar dilemma of disentangling difficulties in communication for learners developing the language of schooling. The author takes a socio-cultural Vygotskian approach to reinterpret international research in language disabilities, namely specific language impairment, communication difficulties, dyslexia and deafness.

Author : Michalle E. Mor Barak
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781544333069

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Managing Diversity by Michalle E. Mor Barak Pdf

The award-winning Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide students with an understanding of diversity from a global perspective. Author Michalle E. Mor Barak offers practical guidelines to help managers create an inclusive workplace and develop an organizational culture that embraces diversity. The Fifth Edition includes expanded coverage of environmental justice, disability diversity, LGBTQ+ diversity, and inclusive leadership.

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Anne Pauwels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198539

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Handbook of Language and Communication: Diversity and Change by Marlis Hellinger,Anne Pauwels Pdf

In line with the overall perspective of the Handbook series, the focus of Vol.9 is on language-related problems arising in the context of linguistic diversity and change, and the contributions Applied Linguistics can offer for solutions. Part I, “Language minorities and inequality,” presents situations of language contact and linguistic diversity as world-wide phenomena. The focus is on indigenous and immigrant linguistic minorities, their (lack of) access to linguistic rights through language policies and the impact on their linguistic future .Part II “Language planning and language change,” focuses on the impact of colonialism, imperialism, globalisation and economics as factors that language policies and planning measures must account for in responding to problems deriving from language contact and linguistic diversity. Part III, “Language variation and change in institutional contexts,” examines language-related problems in selected institutional areas of communication (education, the law, religion, science, the Internet) which will often derive from socioeconomic, cultural and other non-linguistic asymmetries. Part IV, “The discourse of linguistic diversity and language change,” analyses linguistic diversity, language change and language reform as issues of public debates which are informed by different ideological positions, values and attitudes (e.g. with reference to sexism, racism, and political correctness).The volume also contains extensive reference sections and index material.