Forging Multilingual Spaces
. Ed(S): Helot, Christine (Universite Marc Bloch); De Mejia, Anne-Marie (Universidad De Los Andes)
This book offers a new perspective for research in the field of bilingual education by proposing an integrated approach to the study of bilingualism in minority and majority settings. Programmes for indigenous groups, for national minorities and for migrants are analysed together with programmes aimed at dominant language groups, by well-known scholars from eight different countries in Europe and the Americas. Each contribution seeks to go beyond the traditional dichotomy between policy, practice and research into bilingual education programmes for majority language speakers, and modalities offered for minority language speakers. Thus, the book argues for the construction of a shared ... Read more
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Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences The book offers a global perspective of the impact of overt and covert language education policies on the use and perceptions of majority and minority languages in society as well ... Read more