Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom: Pedagogy of the Possible (82) (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism (82))

The book proposes a round the world exploration of the way our traditionally monolingual school systems are being challenged by students from diverse language backgrounds, forcing educationalists to question entrenched ideologies of language and challenging teachers in their everyday classrooms to rethink their relationships to language learning and the issue of diversity Contents 6 Contributors 8 Introduction: From Language Education Policy to a Pedagogy of the Possible 12 Part 1 The Ecology of the Multilingual Classroom: From Complexity to Pedagogy - Perspectives on the Learners 27 Chapter 1 Ideologies and Interactions in Multilingual Education: What Can an Ecological Approach Tell Us about Bilingual Pedagogy? 29 Chapter 2 Heteroglossia in a Multilingual Learning Space: Approaching Language beyond ‘Lingualisms’ 48 Chapter 3 Children’s Literature in the Multilingual Classroom: Developing Multilingual Literacy Acquisition 68 Chapter 4 Multilingualism and Pedagogical Practices in Colombia’s Caribbean Archipelago 91 Part 1 The Ecology of the Multilingual Classroom: From Complexity to Pedagogy - Perspectives on the Teachers 105 Chapter 5 Teachers at the Epicenter: Engagement and Resistance in a Biliteracy Program for ‘Long-Term English Language Learners’ in the United States 107 Chapter 6 Negotiating Multilingualism in an Irish Primary School Context 133 Chapter 7 Exploring New Pedagogical Approaches in the Context of Multilingual Cameroon 154 Part 2 Deconstructing the Myth of Monolingualism - Perspectives on Identities, Ideologies and Politics 173 Chapter 8 Linguistic Diversity as a Bridge to Adjustment: Making the Case for Bi/Multilingualism as a Settlement Outcome in New Zealand 175 Chapter 9 Three is Too Many in Australia 200 Chapter 10 Integrated Bilingual Education: Ethnographic Case Studies from the Palestinian–Jewish ‘Front’ 214 Index 234 ISBN-13:,9781847693679,(hbk),ISBN-13:,9781847693662,(pbk) Multilingual Matters With contributions from leading scholars all around the world, this volume underlines the ever-pressing need for new language in education policies to include all learners' voices in the multilingual classroom and to empower teachers to develop responsive and transformative pedagogies. Using testimonies, narratives and examples from different international contexts, this book points clearly to what can be achieved practically in the multilingual classroom so that multilingual learners' voices are legitimated, while also addressing the complex inter-relating sociolinguistic issues around the promotion of bilingualism and multilingualism in education The book explores the way our traditionally monolingual school systems are being challenged by students from diverse language backgrounds, forcing educationalists to question entrenched ideologies of language and challenging teachers in their everyday classrooms to rethink their relationships to language learning and the issue of diversity. This volume proposes a round the world exploration of the way our traditionally monolingual school systems are being challenged by students from diverse language backgrounds