The Multilingual Challenge : : Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives /

The Multilingual Challenge : : Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives / / ed. by Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, Claire J. Kramsch.

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This collection of scholarly articles is the first to address the challenges of multilingualism from a multidisciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine both the beneficial and the problematic aspects of multilingualism in various dimensions, that is, they address familial, educ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Aronin, Larissa,
Baider, Fabienne,
Ellis, Elizabeth,
Gohard-Radenkovic, Aline,
Gramling, David,
Heidenfeldt, William,
Hua, Zhu,
Jessner, Ulrike,
Kariolemou, Marilena,
Kramsch, Claire,
Lennon, Brian,
Lüdi, Georges,
McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa,
Osterkorn, Patrick K.,
Rong, Fu,
Safont-Jordà, Maria Pilar,
Vetter, Eva,
Wei, Li,
Zarate, Geneviève,
Zhang, Lihua,
HerausgeberIn:
Jessner-Schmid, Ulrike,
Kramsch, Claire J.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] , 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource (359 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Notes on the contributors
  • Introduction: The multilingual challenge
  • Part I: Familial challenges
  • 1. Challenges of multilingualism to the family
  • 2. The promotion of multilingualism in a Catalan-speaking area. Familial challenges in the Valencian Community
  • Part II: Educational challenges
  • 3. Conflict in the second language classroom: a teacher of Spanish facing the complicated dimensions of multilingualism
  • 4. The legitimacy gap: multilingual language teachers in an era of globalization
  • 5. « Le multilinguisme en question ? » – The case of minority language education in Brittany (France)
  • Part III: Institutional challenges
  • 6. Challenges to monolingual national literatures
  • 7. Multilingual and intercultural competence on the threshold of the Third Reich
  • 8. Linguistic Unheimlichkeit: the Armenian and Arab communities of Cyprus
  • Part IV: Scientific challenges
  • 9. Monolingualism and multilingualism in the construction and dissemination of scientific knowledge
  • 10. Le Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme : une recherche internationale, face aux défis d’une conception plurilingue et d’une traduction en anglais et en chinois
  • 11. Understanding current multilingualism: what can the butterfly tell us?
  • Part V: Professional and geopolitical challenges
  • 12. Language policy and planning in international organisations
  • 13. Challenges within the ecology of multilingual interactions in Aboriginal cultural tourism in Central Australia
  • Afterword: Challenging multilingualism
  • Index

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