ISBN:
9781000998085
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (301 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Routledge Series in Language and Content Integrated Teaching and Plurilingual Education Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Language and education
;
Language policy
;
Multilingual education
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- SECTION I: Assessment -- 2. Heteroglossic, multimodal classroom discourses and monolingual, monomodal assessment in Namibian primary science teaching: A case study -- 3. Legitimising fluid multilingual practices: A challenge for formal education worldwide -- 4. Vignette: Using flexible bilingual academic content assessments in the United States: Lessons learned -- 5. Assessment considerations for multilingual students in an English-medium environment: The PUMI decision-making process and translanguaging -- 6. Vignette: The role of home language in supporting adolescent girls' learning in rural Zimbabwe -- SECTION II: Attitudes and community initiatives -- 7. Ideologies of English and language of instruction in Ghana: Educator perceptions and pressures -- 8. Language of instruction attitudes in rural Tanzania: Parental discourses and valued linguistic capabilities -- 9. Vignette: Community initiatives for the use of Maa in education in Kenya -- 10. Community perspectives on the introduction of mother tongue-based bilingual education in Obolo, Nigeria -- 11. Challenges for Gambian primary schools aiming to enhance literacy through the use of national languages -- SECTION III: Policy: Factors in development and implementation -- 12. Vignette: "But exams are not given in Ngoni": The place of local languages in Tanzania's primary education -- 13. Vignette: Language-in-education policy and STEM teaching and learning in Tanzanian schools -- 14. EMI policy in practice: Multilingual mathematics lessons in a government secondary school in rural Rwanda -- 15. Vignette: Sheng as a valuable linguistic resource in education in Kenya.
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