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Continua of Biliteracy : An Ecological Framework for Educational Policy, Research, and Practice in Multilingual Settings / ed. by Nancy H. Hornberger.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Bilingual Education & BilingualismPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781853596551
  • 9781853596568
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.117 22
LOC classification:
  • LC3719 .C67 2003eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part 1: Continua of Biliteracy -- 1. Continua of Biliteracy -- 2. Revisiting the Continua of Biliteracy: International and Critical Perspectives -- Part 2: Language Planning -- 3. Biliteracy and Transliteracy in Wales: Language Planning and the Welsh National Curriculum -- 4. A Luta Continua!: The Relevance of the Continua of Biliteracy to South African Multilingual Schools -- 5. Searching for a Comprehensive Rationale for Two-way Immersion -- Part 3: Learners’ Identities -- 6. Language Education Planning and Policy in Middle America: Students’ Voices -- 7. Biliteracy Development among Latino Youth in New York City Communities: An Unexploited Potential -- 8. To Correct or Not to Correct Bilingual Students’ Errors is a Question of Continua-ing Reimagination -- Part 4: Empowering Teachers -- 9. Biliteracy Teacher Education in the US Southwest -- 10. Content in Rural ESL Programs: Whose Agendas for Biliteracy Are Being Served? -- 11. Enabling Biliteracy: Using the Continua of Biliteracy to Analyze Curricular Adaptations and Elaborations -- Part 5: Sites and Worlds -- 12. When MT is L2: The Korean Church School as a Context for Cultural Identity -- 13. ‘Be Quick of Eye and Slow of Tongue’: An Analysis of Two Bilingual Schools in New Delhi -- Part 6: Conclusion -- 14. Multilingual Language Policies and the Continua of Biliteracy: An Ecological Approach -- Afterword -- Index
Summary: Biliteracy - the use of two or more languages in and around writing- is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet one which most educational policy and practice continue blithely to ignore. The continua of biliteracy featured in the present volume offers a comprehensive yet flexible model to guide educators, researchers, and policy-makers in designing, carrying out, and evaluating educational programs for the development of bilingual and multilingual learners, each program adapted to its own specific context, media, and contents.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part 1: Continua of Biliteracy -- 1. Continua of Biliteracy -- 2. Revisiting the Continua of Biliteracy: International and Critical Perspectives -- Part 2: Language Planning -- 3. Biliteracy and Transliteracy in Wales: Language Planning and the Welsh National Curriculum -- 4. A Luta Continua!: The Relevance of the Continua of Biliteracy to South African Multilingual Schools -- 5. Searching for a Comprehensive Rationale for Two-way Immersion -- Part 3: Learners’ Identities -- 6. Language Education Planning and Policy in Middle America: Students’ Voices -- 7. Biliteracy Development among Latino Youth in New York City Communities: An Unexploited Potential -- 8. To Correct or Not to Correct Bilingual Students’ Errors is a Question of Continua-ing Reimagination -- Part 4: Empowering Teachers -- 9. Biliteracy Teacher Education in the US Southwest -- 10. Content in Rural ESL Programs: Whose Agendas for Biliteracy Are Being Served? -- 11. Enabling Biliteracy: Using the Continua of Biliteracy to Analyze Curricular Adaptations and Elaborations -- Part 5: Sites and Worlds -- 12. When MT is L2: The Korean Church School as a Context for Cultural Identity -- 13. ‘Be Quick of Eye and Slow of Tongue’: An Analysis of Two Bilingual Schools in New Delhi -- Part 6: Conclusion -- 14. Multilingual Language Policies and the Continua of Biliteracy: An Ecological Approach -- Afterword -- Index

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Biliteracy - the use of two or more languages in and around writing- is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet one which most educational policy and practice continue blithely to ignore. The continua of biliteracy featured in the present volume offers a comprehensive yet flexible model to guide educators, researchers, and policy-makers in designing, carrying out, and evaluating educational programs for the development of bilingual and multilingual learners, each program adapted to its own specific context, media, and contents.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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