Mediation as Negotiation of Meanings, Plurilingualism and Language Education
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Mediation as Negotiation of Meanings, Plurilingualism and Language Education
About this book
Bringing together the voices of a diverse group of scholars and language professionals, this edited collection, concerned with the cultivation of plurilingualism in multilingual educational settings, builds on the theory and practice of linguistic and cultural mediation both as curricular content and social practice.
The chapters view mediation as an important aspect of communication which involves dynamic, purposeful interactivity, implicating social agents in the negotiation and construction of socially situated meanings across different languages and within the same language. Theoretically informed chapters present views on mediation as well as contributors' research and project outcomes in educational interventions. They also describe how mediation has been incorporated in educational practices and how it materialises in social contexts. Ultimately, this book makes the case for why mediation constitutes a key competence to be developed for active global and local citizenry in today's societies where there is an increased rate of knowledge acquisition and exchange.
Presenting research from classrooms and other multilingual environments, this book offers concrete suggestions for the development of language users/learners' ability to mediate within and across languages. It will appeal to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of language and education, education policy and politics, bilingualism and plurilingualism more generally. Curriculum designers may also find the volume of use.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Endorsements Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction and critical review the key concepts in this volume: Mediation and plurilingualism
- 2 Mediation for plurilingual competence: Synergies and implications
- 3 Developing an action-oriented perspective on mediation: The new CEFRCV descriptors
- 4 Developing mediation skills at university language centres: How meaningful tasks and scenarios make language learning relevant to the learner
- 5 Mediation as a test format in German high-stakes school-leaving exams
- 6 Conceptualisation and operationalisation of linguistic mediation as a testing construct: A case study
- 7 Mediation-in-interaction in computer-enhanced non-formal contexts for learning English
- 8 Cross-linguistic mediation and linguistic hybridity
- 9 Translation and mediation: From theoretical models to self-awareness and pedagogy
- 10 Mediated interactions between teachers and immigrant parents
- 11 Bi-/multilingual youths’ mediation practices in daily life. Lessons to be learned
- 12 Mediation as a means of negotiating difference in a multilingual community: An educational intervention project
- Index