Flexible Multilingual Education: Putting Children's Needs First
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This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children’s needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children’s actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages that students need for their educational and professional success. It argues that, as more and more children grow up multilingually in our globalised world, there is a need for more nuanced multilingual solutions in language-in-education policies. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education – rather than mother tongue education – is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today’s world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.
Jean-Jacques Weber
Jean-Jacques Weber is Emeritus Professor of English and Education at the University of Luxembourg. He was educated at the University of Lancaster (UK) and the University of Leuven (Belgium), where he was awarded a PhD in 1991. His main research interest is the study of language and education in multilingual contexts. He has published widely in the areas of discourse analysis, multilingualism and education, including Introducing Multilingualism: A Social Approach (with K. Horner; Routledge, 2018), Language Racism (Palgrave, 2015) and Flexible Multilingual Education: Putting Children’s Needs First (Multilingual Matters, 2014).
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