Multilingualism and Education

Researchers' Pathways and Perspectives

Gail Prasad, Nathalie Auger, Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781316517079
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009037358
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

For decades, international researchers and educators have sought to understand how to address cultural and linguistic diversity in education. This book offers the keys to doing so: it brings together short biographies of thirty-six scholars, representing a wide range of universities and countries, to allow them to reflect on their own personal life paths, and how their individual life experiences have led to and informed their research. This approach highlights how theories and concepts have evolved in different contexts, while opening up pedagogical possibilities from diverse backgrounds and enriched by the life experiences of leading researchers in the field. Beyond these questions, the book also explores the dynamic relationships between languages, power and identities, as well as how these relationships raise broader societal issues that permeate both global and local language practices. It is essential reading for students, teacher educators, and researchers interested in the impact of multilingualism on education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• 1 Humanizing Research(ers) and Understanding How Concepts Evolve in Context
• 2 Become a Teacher-Researcher to Find Your Turkish
• 3 Between Languages, Norms and Social Variations
• 4 Learning to Language, Learning to Live: An Essay on Literacies of Language Learning
• 5 A Retrospective Look at Multi/Pluri/Linguistic Transformations
• 6 Multilingualism as Lived, Felt and Evolving through Dialogue and Melody of Life
• 7 Revisiting the ''Plurilingual-Intercultural'' Orthodoxy
• 8 The Languages That Started to Flourish in Our Childhood, Developed over Time into Beautiful Blooming Meadows
• 9 On the Borderline between Languages and Knowledge
• 10 Multilingualism as Part of Social Reality
• 11 Some Elements of Family History and Language Biography
• 12 My Trajectory in Languages and Language Learning
• 13 Multilingualism as Norm: Advocating for Equity for Multilingual Learners
• 14 From Patois to Inter-comprehension Issues
• 15 Biography, Linguistic Coexistence, and Epistemological Reflection
• 16 Fighting off Zombies in France's Multilingual Education
• 17 From Language Planning to the Didactization of Plurilingualism: A Swiss Perspective
• 18 A Sociolinguistic Biography and Understandings of Bilingualism
• 19 Experiential and Research Journey: Questioning Linguistic and Cultural Otherness
• 20 Multimodality and Multilingualism: Biographical Notes, Key Concepts, and Practices
• 21 Researching Multilingualism and Language Education across Borders and over Decades
• 22 Possible Selves
• 23 Feeling at Home across Languages, Schools and Countries
• 24 From Monolingual Habitus to Plurilingual Education
• 25 My Path toward Awareness of Languages and Linguistic Diversity
• 26 A Personal Journey: School, Social Class, and Language
• 27 Cultivating Plurilingual Gardens
• 28 Unbecoming a Monolingual Anglophone
• 29 From Plurilingual Experiences to Pluri-Artistic Practices
• 30 A Personal and Professional Journey to Multilingualism
• 31 Journey towards a Translanguaging Pedagogy for Social Justice: From School French to Critical Race Theory
• 32 From Language Biography to a Research Life's Journey
• 33 My Linguistic Biography
• 34 Travelling Back and Forth between Local Language Variation and Global Multilingualism
• 35 A Reflection on Generational Diaspora and Resulting Linguistic Acclimatization
• 36 On Language(s), Education and Dynamic Language Users: Final Words and Future Directions
• Index