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Date: 14-Jan-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
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Title: Monolingual Policies in Multilingual Schools
Subtitle: Tensions, Ambivalence, and Thinking Teachers
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/monolingual-policies-in-multilingual-schools-9780197698143?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Author(s): Jürgen Jaspers

Hardback: ISBN: 9780197698143 Pages: 296 Price: U.S. $ 120.00

Abstract:

In Monolingual Policies in Multilingual Schools, Jürgen Jaspers shows
how a more complex understanding of teacher behavior is crucial to
explain how teachers navigate the competing concerns of the
authorities who pay their salaries, the pupils whose opportunities
they wish to support, and the scholars who share their knowledge with
them.

Drawing on seven years of research in Dutch-medium schools in Belgium,
Jaspers investigates how teachers at monolingual schools deal with the
fact that they teach linguistically diverse groups of pupils. He
demonstrates that this results in variable, ambivalent, and often
contradictory practices and opinions, as teachers continuously juggle
competing social and linguistic values with what works in a given
classroom. Recognizing that inconsistency and contradiction in teacher
behavior is a result of adjusting to variable circumstances means
understanding that a single approach may not work, and that a
convincing and critical sociolinguistics can generate potential change
when it insists on a variety of opinions about language and on the
prospect of informed deliberation and debate. Jaspers argues that this
capacity is crucial for attending to the multiple, competing goals
that classroom interaction presents; that it typically invites
inconsistent, albeit rational, behavior; and that if this
inconsistency is common and chronic, researchers on
language-in-education need to improve their radar and develop a
different kind of dialogue with teachers.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Translation




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