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Table of Contents:

• Educators as language decision makers and negotiators. Broadening our view of advocacy ; The centrality of language in schools ; Linguistic diversity around the world ; Discourses of multilingualism
• Multilingualism as norm and desired goal. Language contact: origins and outcomes ; Common arguments for linguistic diversity ; Are there advantages to monolingualism? ; A special case: arguments for saving endangered languages ; Multilingualism for all?
• Multilingualism and multilingual development. Multilingual repertoires ; Views of bilingualism and assessment practices ; Multilingual acquisition ; Access to the minority language: maintenance, shift, and loss ; Bilingualism and biliteracy in school ; Dynamic approaches to multilingualism
• Linguistic diversity and globalization. Globalization and language issues ; The spread of English: threat or benefit? ; English and diversification ; Moving beyond dichotomies
• Language In education. Language policy and education: a general framework ; Language policy in schools ; We all "do" language planning
• Language policy in the United States. Imagined communities and national identities ; Early years: tolerance and repression ; Immigrant era: focus on assimilation ; Return to bilingual education ; Toward a monolingual America? The modern English-only movement ; Maintaining pluralist approaches ; Multiple discourses in U.S. language in education policy
• Program models and outcomes. The quest for the perfect model ; Program evaluations and outcomes ; Limits of the effectiveness debate ; From outcomes to features ; Refraining the effectiveness debate
• Principles for multilingual schools. Language policy, local practice ; Four principles for language policy in education ; Striving for educational equity ; Affirming identities ; Promoting additive bi/multilingualism ; Structuring for integration ; Putting it all together
• Affirming identities in multilingual schools. Role definitions and affirming identities ; Reflecting on the principle of affirming identities in practice ; Policy to practice: challenges to valuing diverse identities ; Shifting perspectives: the language of affirming identities
• Promoting additive bi/multilingualism. Language status and additive bi/multilingualism ; Increasing language status through programmatic decisions ; Increasing language status in non-dual-language education classrooms ; Reflecting on the principle of additive bi/multilingualism in practice ; Policy to practice: challenges to language status equalization ; Shifting perspectives: the language of additive bi/multilingualism
• Structuring for integration. Integration, segregation, and assimilation ; Reflecting on the principle of structuring for integration in practice ; Policy to practice: challenges to student integration ; Shifting perspectives: the language of integration
• Moving forward. Discourses and language decisions in school ; The need for dual pathways to advocacy ; The four principles and pluralist discourses: policies, practices, and research ; Moving toward bi/multilingual discourses.

Author/Creator:

De Jong, Ester J. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Foundations for multilingualism in education: from principles to practice [by De Jong, E.J.]

Subjects:

Education, Bilingual — United States

Language and education — United States

Multilingualism — United States

Multiculturalism — United States

Education, Bilingual

Language and education

Multilingualism

Multiculturalism

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiv 288 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

LC3731 .D4 2011

ISBNs:

9781934000069 (paperback)
193400006X (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2011008050

OCLC Numbers:

703625840