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Multilingual Classrooms for Young Children in the UK

Advancing Diversity through Technology and Research

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Buch | Softcover
188 Seiten
2025
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-80041-467-9 (ISBN)
CHF 34,80 inkl. MwSt
This book is a call to action for educators, policymakers and parents, combining practical strategies with research-based insights to support its readers in advocating for multilingual education. It will enable teachers to combine technological innovations and the linguistic resources of their communities to support and promote multilingualism.
This book demonstrates the importance of raising multilingual children in the UK, both for the children’s own benefit and for the benefit of society as a whole. Against the backdrop of both the rich linguistic diversity already present in the UK and the challenges faced by any languages other than a few major European languages to find any space in educational contexts, the author challenges the myth that multilingualism hinders English language acquisition and use, instead emphasising the cultural and cognitive advantages of multilingual education and support for home and community languages. The book is a call to action for educators, policymakers and parents, combining practical strategies with research-based insights to support its readers in advocating for multilingual education. It presents a hopeful vision for education in the UK, where teachers can combine technological innovations and the linguistic resources of their classrooms and communities to support and promote multilingualism.

Jieun Kiaer is Professor of Korean Linguistics at the University of Oxford, UK. Her recent publications include Young Children's Foreign Language Anxiety: The Case of South Korea (with Jessica M. Morgan-Brown and Naya Choi, Multilingual Matters, 2021) and Multimodal Communication in Young Multilingual Children: Learning Beyond Words (Multilingual Matters, 2023).

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Abbreviations



Introduction



Chapter 1. The Big 'Why': Questions for UK Language Education             



Chapter 2. Challenges and Prospects in the UK’s Language Education      



Chapter 3. Why Language Matters          



Chapter 4. Why Home and Community Language Matters           



Chapter 5. Psychology of Language Learning       



Chapter 6. Digital Innovation Matters    



Chapter 7. Collaboration Matters            



Chapter 8. Towards Translanguaging Pedagogy



References



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 290 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10 1-80041-467-6 / 1800414676
ISBN-13 978-1-80041-467-9 / 9781800414679
Zustand Neuware
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