Full Description
Plurilingual communication is common practice in most urban areas. Societal domains such as business and science nowadays see themselves as international, and plurilingual communication is the rule rather than the exception. But how do other players in critical domains of modern societies, and more specifically, in education react to this situation? This volume of the Hamburg Studies in Linguistic Diversity (HSLD) series explores this question along three major lines. One group of contributions sheds light on educational policies in Europe and beyond. A second group of contributions elucidates what interaction and communication practices develop in multilingual contexts. The focus is on school settings. Thirdly, we present articles that discuss the effects of plurilingual settings and plurilingual practices on language development. As a whole this volume shows how linguistic diversity shapes a central domain of our societies, namely education, and how it also impacts upon the development of the individuals interacting in this domain.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Grommes, Patrick); 2. Part 1. Policies; 3. Plurilingualism and the challenges of education (by Coste, Daniel); 4. The Council of Europe's Language Education Policy Profile: An opportunity to respond to diversity in policy and practice (by Little, David); 5. Australian Language Policy and the design of a national curriculum for languages (by Mollering, Martina); 6. Acts of identity in the continuum from multilingual practices to language policy (by Ehrhart, Sabine); 7. Minority language instruction in Berlin and Brandenburg: Overview and case studies of Sorbian, Polish, Turkish and Chinese (by Pfaff, Carol W.); 8. Part 2. Multilingual practices; 9. Dynamics and management of linguistic diversity in companies and institutions of higher education: Results from the DYLAN-project (by Ludi, Georges); 10. Discourse, representation and language practices: Negotiating plurilingual identities and spaces (by Stratilaki, Sofia); 11. "Because it is my life, and I'm the one who makes choices" - Newcomers in the French education system and career guidance: What about their plurilingual competence? (by Pickel, Timea); 12. The effects of language transfer as a resource in instruction (by Gobel, Kerstin); 13. Part 3. Language development; 14. Effects of biliteracy on third language reading proficiency, the example of Turkish-German bilinguals (by Rauch, Dominique); 15. L1 and L2 proficiency in Hebrew English adolescent learners (by Ravid, Dorit); 16. Developing a written lexicon in a multilingual environment (by Llaurado, Anna); 17. Index
