Being And Becoming Multilingual
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Being And Becoming Multilingual
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language : en
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Release Date : 2022-01-25
Being And Becoming Multilingual written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-25 with categories.
Multilingual Education
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Author : Jasone Cenoz
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015
Multilingual Education written by Jasone Cenoz and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Education, Bilingual categories.
"This cutting edge volume explores holistic trends in multilingualism, analysing the processes of both 'becoming multilingual' and 'being multilingual'. Multilingualism has increased in recent years due to globalisation, transnational mobility and the spread of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). This volume explores some of the trends in the study of multilingual education by putting together research studies that analyse the processes of both 'becoming multilingual' and 'being multilingual' in educational contexts."--Publisher's website.
Being And Becoming A Speaker Of Japanese
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Author : Andrea Simon-Maeda
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Being And Becoming A Speaker Of Japanese written by Andrea Simon-Maeda and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This autoethnographic account of the author’s Japanese as a second language learning trajectory is an important and unique addition to diary studies in SLA and applied linguistics qualitative research circles. In-depth ethnographic details and introspective commentary are skilfully interwoven throughout Simon-Maeda’s narrative of her experiences as an American expatriate who arrived in Japan in 1975 – the starting point of her being and becoming a speaker of Japanese. The book joins the recent surge in postmodernist, interdisciplinary approaches to examining language acquisition, and readers are presented with a highly convincing case for using autoethnography to better understand sociolinguistic complexities that are unamenable to quantification of isolated variables. The comprehensive literature review and wide ranging references provide a valuable source of information for researchers, educators, and graduate students concerned with current issues in SLA/applied linguistics, bi/multilingualism, and Japanese as a second language.
Becoming Multilingual
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Author : Cecilia Varcasia
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 2011
Becoming Multilingual written by Cecilia Varcasia and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language and culture categories.
Research into the complex phenomenon of multilingualism is rapidly increasing. This book looks at multilingualism through its interfaces with language policies, language attitudes and issues of language awareness and identity. The aim is to examine the dynamic processes that lead or hinder the development of such phenomena. One of the scopes of the volume is to represent the complexity of the multilingual speaker by shedding light on different multilingual settings in the world. The chapters of this volume tackle the topic from a sociolinguistic perspective by showing how multilingualism is dynamically constructed. They provide empirical research on language learning in different multilingual environments in the world as well as practical suggestions for the investigation of multilingualism and the improvement of its education.
Visualising Multilingual Lives
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Author : Paula Kalaja
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2019-03-08
Visualising Multilingual Lives written by Paula Kalaja and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Shortlisted for the 2020 BAAL Book Prize This book brings together empirical studies from around the world to help readers gain a better understanding of multilinguals, ranging from small children to elderly people, and their lives. The chapters focus on the multilingual subjects’ identities and the ways in which they are discursively and/or visually constructed, and are split into sections looking specifically at the multilingual self, the multilingual learner and multilingual teacher education. The studies draw on rich visual data, which is analysed for content and/or form and often complemented with other types of data, to investigate how multilinguals make sense of their use and knowledge of more than one language in their specific context. The topic of multilingualism is addressed as subjectively experienced and the book unites the current multilingual, narrative and visual turns in Applied Language Studies. It will be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of language learning and teaching, teacher education and bi/multilingualism, as well as to those interested in using visual methods and narratives as a means of academic research.
Supporting Multilingual Learners In The Early Years
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Author : Sandra Smidt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-11-21
Supporting Multilingual Learners In The Early Years written by Sandra Smidt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-21 with Education categories.
Shortlisted for the Nasen Book that supports SEN and Disability Issues Award 2008 Are children who are exposed to more than one language from birth at an advantage or a disadvantage when starting school? Supporting Multilingual Learners in the Early Years examines the theoretical, ideological and practical issues involved in the education of children speaking two or more languages coming to settings which are predominantly monolingual. The book examines current research and thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of being multilingual and tackles complex topics such as: what being multilingual implies in terms of prior learning and why this matters in education the importance of respect for diversity and encouraging children to be proud of their language and culture practical ways to help young children acquire English ways of working with parents who themselves have little or no English the differences and difficulties involved in a child learning an additional language so early on in their lives strategies for exploring the learning of multilingual learners and a review of the resources and activities that could help. Sandra Smidt views multilingualism as a cognitive advantage and shows how Early Years practitioners can use interactive styles of learning to focus on the benefit that the many cultures and languages in the classroom can bring to children’s learning and development. Written in a highly accessible tone, this book offers practitioners a mix of practical case studies and examples in which theory is embedded and its importance explained. Students of early childhood education will also appreciate the author's carefully structured approach to the topic, as she includes summary boxes, glossaries and points for reflection in each chapter.
Multilingual Multimedia
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Author : Masoud Yazdani
language : en
Publisher: Intellect Books
Release Date : 1993
Multilingual Multimedia written by Masoud Yazdani and has been published by Intellect Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Computers categories.
Includes chapters that provide a survey of approaches to developing multimedia software and relevant multilingual issues; design considerations for a visual language and how it might be developed for maximum ease of use.
Multilingualism
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Author : Anat Stavans
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-15
Multilingualism written by Anat Stavans and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-15 with Education categories.
Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores how multilingualism is shaped by a variety of factors such as globalisation and migration. It examines language use in a range of cultural contexts, exploring how children and adults become multilingual and the impact of multilingualism on society and identity.
Raising Multilingual Children
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Author : Julia Festman
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2017-03-29
Raising Multilingual Children written by Julia Festman and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-29 with Family & Relationships categories.
Have you ever been told that raising your child to speak multiple languages will harm their development? Are teachers or other professionals suspicious of your efforts? Are you sometimes unsure if you are helping your child’s language development, or are you uncertain where to start? It is increasingly recognised among researchers that, far from harming a child’s development, being exposed to multiple languages from birth or early childhood can result in linguistic, creative and social advantages. The authors, all multilinguals themselves, parents of multilingual children, and researchers on language and multilingualism, aim to provide advice and inspiration for multilingual families across the world. The latest research on multilingualism and the authors’ own experiences are used to provide a friendly, accessible guide to raising and nurturing happy multilingual children.
Multilingualism Language And Ideology Across Time And Space
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Author : Madina Djuraeva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Multilingualism Language And Ideology Across Time And Space written by Madina Djuraeva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
In this dissertation, I consider the role of broader sociocultural, political, historical, and economic factors in shaping learners' (and speakers') experiences of becoming and being multilingual, through a focus on Central Asian multilingual communities. This primarily contributes to holistic approaches in research on multilingual learners in education by accounting for a number of intertwined aspects of multilingual lived experiences including policy, migration, education, and belonging. In this dissertation, I demonstrate that pathways to becoming and being multilingual learners, speakers, and users are socially constructed, multiscale decisions, which are not decisions only about language, but also about moral, civic, and transnational identities that participants co-construct in dialogue with the larger sociopolitical, historical and economic trends. The analysis of larger social context in the narratives of learning adds to a further theorization of the situated nature of identity and language showing how multilinguals constantly re-appropriate their attitudes towards their languages according to times, spaces, places, and people they invoke in their narrative event. I show that only by attending to these various aspects of the narrative can we fully comprehend the narrative inconsistencies. For instance, I demonstrate that an attention to unconscious aspects of participant discourses is useful in distinguishing between the ways participants construct their linguistic repertoire as native or non-native when orienting to national and international norms, or hybrid when invoking stories of daily language use. This work is ethnographic and my data come from over 80 hours of audio recordings of loosely and semi-structured individual and focus group interviews with Central Asian multilinguals, casual conversations between them, their friends and family, along with participant observation at social events. Across these different contexts, I examine the use of evaluative and affective language, modalization, voicing, deictics, unconscious elements of experience, narrating and narrated events, and participant metacommentary about particular languages, educational spaces, and events in their lives, to show how these multilinguals discursively (re)imagine moral norms for behavior, deficit in language education, agency and individual investment, linguistic (in)security and ownership, as well as nativeness and non-nativeness by orienting to the past, present and future in their narratives of lived experience. In Chapter 5, I argue that for Central Asian multilinguals, the decision about language education is also a decision based on moral values. In doing so, I analyze the discursive construction of moral behavioral scripts in participants' stories of family language policy and planning. Additionally, I show that stories of becoming multilingual are also stories of lost language learning opportunities and that investment in language learning is closely linked to the notion of agency. In Chapter 6, I present a comparative analysis of multilingual students' ideologies of and attitudes to English in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. I show how multilingual students from Kazakhstan claim linguistic ownership of English by orienting toward state discourses of trilingual nation-branding, which is strikingly different from the narratives of students in a neighboring country, Uzbekistan, who project an opportunistic and insecure attitudes toward English. In Chapter 7, I demonstrate how transnational multilinguals blur the lines between nativeness and non-nativeness through scaling and (re)scaling their stories of language attitudes and language use in everyday life. I introduce discourses of habit as a new useful term in accounting for the unconscious aspects of these participants' discourses of daily language practices. In addition to describing the linguistic situation of understudied communities, this work informs a multilingual turn in applied linguistics by focusing on multilinguals in their home countries and those multilinguals who have moved abroad, as well as attending to multiple languages in participants' linguistics repertoires. Theoretically, this work demonstrates that identities should be studied within the spatiotemporal configurations of the contexts in which they are constructed and that an attention to (un)conscious habits of daily language use can challenge the native/non-native dichotomy. I also re-visit the concepts of linguistic ownership, nation-branding, and post-Soviet brain drain to re-conceptualize multilingual speakers' stories of becoming and being multilingual. With regard to applied implications, this research offers a number of instructional suggestions for the second and foreign language classrooms, in which knowledge of moral values held by students' families and a metalinguistic conversation around students' daily use of languages can be informative for curriculum design and for cultivating students' linguistic confidence. Finally, this study is timely in addressing the experiences of understudied and under-theorized multilingual communities toward developing a more holistic approach to the study of multilingualism and multilingual learners in Education.