37.700, Books: Teachers as Mediators in Language Immersion Education: Marshall and Bokhorst-Heng (2025)

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Date: 16-Feb-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Teachers as Mediators in Language Immersion Education: Marshall and Bokhorst-Heng (2025)


Title: Teachers as Mediators in Language Immersion Education
Subtitle: Navigating Ideologies, Cultures and Identities
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/teachers-as-mediators-in-language-immersion-education-9781350186514/

Author(s): Kelle L. Marshall & Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781350186514
Price: £90.00

Abstract:

This book explores the role of teachers as intercultural mediators
within language immersion education programs. The authors draw on
research conducted in the context of a one-way French immersion
program in New Brunswick, Canada, an officially bilingual province and
country. Their discussion is anchored on the landmark Douglas Fir
Group framework of second language acquisition, examining the
implications of macro-level ideologies for language education,
curriculum and intercultural instruction. The book considers
educators' placement within the framework and their potential role as
intercultural mediators between macro-level ideologies, meso-level
curricular implementation, and their students at the micro level. They
even provide an amendment to the framework that models this mediating
role.
Through interview data with entry point early French immersion
teachers and principals of their schools, the authors emphasise the
importance of theoretically situating teachers' positions as mediators
of ideology and culture. Through this, we can fully understand what it
means to incorporate intercultural competence into language learning.
They argue that, teachers receive little support-either through
curriculum or through training-on how to engage with (inter)cultural
instruction in their practice. They then describe their own course for
training pre- and in-service teachers on intercultural mediation in
their language education practice, applicable to a variety of language
learning models and contexts.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories




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