23.2629, Books: Harnessing Linguistic Variation to Improve Education: Yiakoumetti (Ed)

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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:39:03
From: Laura Bally [publicity at peterlang.com]
Subject: Harnessing Linguistic Variation to Improve Education: Yiakoumetti (Ed)

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Title: Harnessing Linguistic Variation to Improve Education 
Series Title: Rethinking Education - Volume 5  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?430726 

Editor: Androula Yiakoumetti

Paperback: ISBN:  9783034307260 Pages: 328 Price: U.S. $ 69.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034307260 Pages: 328 Price: U.K. £ 45.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034307260 Pages: 328 Price: Europe EURO 50.00 Comment: for Germany EURO 53.50, for Austria EURO 55.00 (incl. VAT)

Abstract:

This volume brings together research carried out in a variety of geographic 
and linguistic contexts including Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, the 
Caribbean, Europe and the United States and explores efforts to incorporate 
linguistic diversity into education and to 'harness' this diversity for learners' 
benefit. It challenges the largely anachronistic ideology that promotes 
exclusive use of an educational monolingual standard variety and advocates 
the use in formal education of aboriginal/indigenous languages, minority 
languages, nonstandard varieties and contact languages.

The contributors examine both historical and current practices for including 
linguistic diversity in education by considering specific bidialectal, bilingual 
and multilingual educational initiatives. The different geographical and 
linguistic settings covered in the volume are linked together by a unifying 
theme: linguistic diversity exists all over the world, but it is very rarely utilized 
effectively for the benefit of students. When it is used, whether in isolated 
studies or through governmental initiatives, the research findings point 
systematically to the many educational advantages experienced by 
linguistically-diverse students. This book will be of interest to teachers and 
language practitioners, as well as to students and scholars of language and 
education. 

Contents: Androula Yiakoumetti: Rethinking Linguistic Diversity in Education 
- Stephen May: Educational Approaches to Minorities: Context, Contest and 
Opportunities - Ofelia García/Nelson Flores/Heather Homonoff Woodley: 
Transgressing Monolingualism and Bilingual Dualities: Translanguaging 
Pedagogies - Suresh Canagarajah/Madhav Kafle/Yumi Matsumoto: World 
Englishes in Local Classrooms - Sandra Lee McKay: English as an 
International Language, Multilingualism and Language Planning - Linda 
Tsung: Rethinking Multilingual Education for Minority Students in China - 
Peter Garrett/Josep M. Cots/David Lasagabaster/Enric Llurda: 
Internationalization and the Place of Minority Languages in Universities in 
Three European Bilingual Contexts: A Comparison of Student Perspectives in 
the Basque Country, Catalonia and Wales - Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu: The 
Medium-of-Instruction Conundrum and 'Minority' Language Development in 
Africa - Jessica Ball/Barbara May Hanford Bernhardt: Standard English as a 
Second Dialect: A Canadian Perspective - Ian G. Malcolm/Adriano Truscott: 
English Without Shame: Two-Way Aboriginal Classrooms in Australia - Jeff 
Siegel: Educational Approaches for Speakers of Pidgin and Creole 
Languages - Androula Yiakoumetti: The Dangers of Dialects: Debunking (or 
Substantiating) the Myths. 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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