Reviving Catalan At School

Author : Joaquim Arnau
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783090273

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Reviving Catalan at School by Joaquim Arnau Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive picture of languages and schools in Catalan-speaking countries, making much of the information available in English for the first time. The chapters examine multiple aspects of the language situation in these countries, including: the recovery of Catalan in schools; the position and status of the majority languages (English and Spanish); language-in-education policies in a multilingual, multicultural context; the possibility of multilingual competence; and the successes and failures of instructional processes.

Author : Cecilio Lapresta-Rey,Ángel Huguet
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788923323

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Multilingualism in European Language Education by Cecilio Lapresta-Rey,Ángel Huguet Pdf

This book explores how different European education systems manage multilingualism. Each chapter focuses on one of ten diverse settings (Andorra, Asturias, the Basque Country, Catalonia, England, Finland, France, Latvia, the Netherlands and Romania) and considers how its education system is influenced by historical, sociolinguistic and legislative and political processes and how languages are handled within the system, stressing the challenges and opportunities in each area of study. The chapters provide the reader with insights around three key aspects: the management of the guarantee of the rights of regional language minorities; the incorporation of the language background inherited by immigrants living in Europe (whether they are European citizens or not) and the need to promote the learning of international languages. Individually, the chapters offer deep insights into a specific education system and, together, the studies allow for a comparison and holistic understanding of multilingualism in European education.

Author : Joan A. Argenter,Jens Lüdtke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110448313

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Manual of Catalan Linguistics by Joan A. Argenter,Jens Lüdtke Pdf

This manual is intended to fill a gap in the area of Romance studies. There is no introduction available so far that broadly covers the field of Catalan linguistics, neither in Catalan nor in any other language. The work deals with the language spoken in Catalonia and Andorra, the Balearic Islands, the region of Valencia, Northern Catalonia and the town of l'Alguer in Sardinia. Besides introducing the ideologies of language and nation and the history of Catalan linguistics, the manual is divided into separate parts embracing the description – grammar, lexicon, variation and varieties – and the history of the language since the early medieval period to the present day. It also covers its current social and political situation in the new local and global contexts. The main emphasis is placed on modern Catalan. The manual is designed as a companion for students of Catalan, while also introducing specialists of other languages into this field, in particular scholars of Romance languages.

Author : Andrew Dowling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317169444

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The Rise of Catalan Independence by Andrew Dowling Pdf

As recently as the mid-2000s, Catalonia was described and analysed by scholars as exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was seen within Europe and beyond as a role model for successful devolution which had much to teach other parts of the world. The Spanish state seemed to be on a journey towards an authentic federal order and was generally admired. However, the new century has been marked by an ever-growing independence movement, with 47.8 per cent of Catalonia voting in favour of independence in September 2015. Pro-independence mobilization has produced a rupture in political relations with the rest of Spain leading to a sovereignty struggle with Madrid. This book explores how an accumulation of long-, medium- and short-term factors have produced the current situation and why the Spanish territorial model has been unable or possibly, unwilling, to respond. The Catalan question is not purely a Spanish problem: it has direct implications for the traditional nation-state model, in Europe and beyond.

Author : William J. Hunter,Roger Austin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000210477

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Blended and Online Learning for Global Citizenship by William J. Hunter,Roger Austin Pdf

By showcasing international, European, and community-based projects, this volume explores how online technologies and collaborative and blended learning can be used to bolster social cohesion and increase students’ understanding of what it means to be a global citizen. With the pace of technology rapidly increasing, Blended and Online Learning for Global Citizenship draws timely attention to the global lessons being learned from the impact of these technologies on peace building, community development, and acceptance of difference. In-depth case studies showcasing successful projects in Europe, Northern Ireland, and Israel explore blended learning and illustrate how schools and educators have embraced online technologies to foster national and international links both within and beyond communities. This has, in turn, equipped students with experiences that have informed their attitudes to cultural and political conflicts, as well as racial, ethnic, and social diversity. Building on the authors’ previous work Online Learning and Community Cohesion (2013), this thought-provoking text will be of interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of international and comparative education. Educators and school leaders concerned with how multiculturalism and technology play out in the classroom environment will also benefit from reading this text.

Author : Jacqueline Hall
Publisher : Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Catalan language
ISBN : 8485557557

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Convivència in Catalonia by Jacqueline Hall Pdf

Author : Kathryn A. Woolard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190258634

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Singular and Plural by Kathryn A. Woolard Pdf

A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn Woolard develops a framework for analyzing ideologies of linguistic authority and uses it to illuminate the politics of language in Spain and Catalonia, where Catalan jostles with Castilian for legitimacy. Longitudinal research across decades of political autonomy contextualizes this ethnographic study of the social meaning of Catalan in the 21st century. Part I lays out the ideologies of linguistic authenticity, anonymity, and naturalism that typically underpin linguistic authority in the modern western world, and gives an overview of a shift in the ideological grounding of linguistic authority in contemporary Catalonia. Part II examines discourses in the media surrounding three public linguistic controversies: an immigrant president's linguistic competence, a municipal festival, and an international book fair. Part III explores individuals' linguistic practices and views, drawing on classroom ethnographies and interviews with two generations of young people from the same high school. The book argues that there is an ongoing shift at both public and personal levels away from the ethnolinguistic authenticity that powered relations in the early transition to political autonomy, and toward new discourses of anonymity, rooted cosmopolitanism, and authenticity understood as a project rather than a matter of origins and essence. This shift is reflected in the current sovereignty movement.

Author : Eva Codó
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000813685

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Global CLIL by Eva Codó Pdf

This collection turns a critical lens on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) research, making the case for a sociolinguistic-informed approach towards investigating social inequalities and making visible issues, processes and actors overlooked in CLIL research. The volume seeks to expand the borders of existing CLIL scholarship through situated ethnographic perspectives, highlighting the value of a critical sociolinguistic perspective in illuminating the relationship between the emergence of CLIL and specific socio-political and economic conditions in contemporary multilingual education. Drawing on examples from Europe, Latin America, Australia and Asia, the book focuses on exploring inequities in CLIL policy and implementation across different institutional contexts and demonstrates the ways in which CLIL extends beyond the classroom as situated in multiple and changing networks of interest, policy and practice. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingual education, language policy and planning, and applied linguistics.

Author : Jean-Jacques Weber
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783092017

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Flexible Multilingual Education by Jean-Jacques Weber Pdf

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.

Author : Kristine Horner,Jean Jacques Weber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351997720

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Introducing Multilingualism by Kristine Horner,Jean Jacques Weber Pdf

Introducing Multilingualism is a comprehensive and user-friendly introduction to the dynamic field of multilingualism. Adopting a compelling social and critical approach and covering important social and educational issues, the authors expertly guide readers through the established theories, leading them to question dominant discourses on subjects such as integration, heritage and language testing. This second edition has been fully revised and updated, featuring new chapters on multilingualism in new media, the workplace and the family. Other key topics include: language as a social construct language contact and variation language and identity the differences between individual and societal multilingualism translanguaging flexible multilingual education. With a wide range of engaging activities and quizzes and a comprehensive selection of case studies from around the world, this is essential reading for undergraduate students and postgraduate students new to studying multilingualism.

Author : Albert Bastardas-Boada
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788491683162

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From language shift to language revitalization and sustainability by Albert Bastardas-Boada Pdf

This book aims to contribute to the overall, integrated understanding of the processes of language contact and their evolution, be they the result of political or economic (dis)integrations or migrations or for technological reasons. Via an interdisciplinary, holistic approach, it also aims to support the theoretical grounding of a unified, common sociolinguistic paradigm, based on an ecological and complexity perspective. This approach built on the fact that linguistic structures do not live in isolation from their social functions and must be situated in relation to the sub-and supra-systems that determine their existence if we are to understand their fortunes. It is a useful contribution to understanding and promoting the processes of linguistic revitalization in the world, combining at the same time the maintenance and development of diversity while ensuring the intercommunication of human species.

Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Janice Carruthers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394337

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Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics by Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Janice Carruthers Pdf

The Romance languages offer a particularly fertile ground for the exploration of the relationship between language and society in different social contexts and communities. Focusing on a wide range of Romance languages – from national languages to minoritised varieties – this volume explores questions concerning linguistic diversity and multilingualism, language contact, medium and genre, variation and change. It will interest researchers and policy-makers alike.

Author : Shawn Loewen,Masatoshi Sato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317386742

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The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition by Shawn Loewen,Masatoshi Sato Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition is the first collection of state-of-the-art papers pertaining to Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA). Written by 45 world-renowned experts, the entries are full-length articles detailing pertinent issues with up-to-date references. Each chapter serves three purposes: (1) provide a review of current literature and discussions of cutting edge issues; (2) share the authors’ understanding of, and approaches to, the issues; and (3) provide direct links between research and practice. In short, based on the chapters in this handbook, ISLA has attained a level of theoretical and methodological maturity that provides a solid foundation for future empirical and pedagogical discovery. This handbook is the ideal resource for researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduate students, teachers, and teacher-educators who are interested in second language learning and teaching. .

Author : Vasilia Kourtis-Kazoullis,Themistoklis Aravossitas,Eleni Skourtou,Peter Pericles Trifonas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351170062

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Interdisciplinary Research Approaches to Multilingual Education by Vasilia Kourtis-Kazoullis,Themistoklis Aravossitas,Eleni Skourtou,Peter Pericles Trifonas Pdf

Recently intensified global mobility has reinforced the interest for ethnolinguistic diversity and multilingualism in education and society. Interdisciplinary Research Approaches to Multilingual Education brings together current interdisciplinary perspectives in multilingual and second language education to examine research and language teaching in specific countries, as well as different aspects of multilingual education that include language policies and ICT applications. Containing context-specific practical interventions and relevant theoretical approaches, it considers the contemporary challenges of language policies and practices to inform teacher and curriculum development based on international empirical research. The chapters of this book are centered around the following themes: Educational programs and policies Teaching and learning Linguistic diversity ICT and language learning This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in language education, bilingual education, second/foreign language learning, CALL, and applied linguistics. It will also appeal to educational administrators and those involved with language education policies.

Author : Rani Rubdy,Ruanni Tupas,Mario Saraceni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350065864

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Bloomsbury World Englishes Volume 2: Ideologies by Rani Rubdy,Ruanni Tupas,Mario Saraceni Pdf

Bloomsbury World Englishes offers a comprehensive and rigorous description of the facts, implications and contentious issues regarding the forms and functions of English in the world. International experts cover a diverse range of varieties and topics, offering a more accurate understanding of English across the globe and the various social contexts in which it plays a significant role. With volumes dedicated to research paradigms, language ideologies and pedagogies, the collection pushes the boundaries of the field to go beyond traditional descriptive paradigms and contribute to moving research agendas forward. Volume 2: Ideologies explores the politics and economics of English, and the impact of language on local societies and cultures. In doing so, chapters discuss how English is often entangled in societal issues, such as inequality, (de-)colonization, racism, oppression and liberation.