Current Multilingualism

Author : David Singleton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1614512817
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Multilingualism written by David Singleton and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume approaches contemporary multilingualism as a new linguistic dispensation, in urgent need of research-led, reflective scrutiny. The book addresses the emergent global and local patterns of multingual use and acquisition across the world and explores the major trends that characterize today's multilingualism. It is divided into three parts on the basis of the broad themes: education (including multilingual learning in its general, theoretical aspects), sociolinguistic dimensions and language policy. The book's fifteen chapters, written by renowned international experts, discuss a range of issues relating to the quintessential and unique properties of multilingual situations – issues relevant to the challenges faced in different ways by researcher and practitioners alike. All the contributions share a focus on currently operative patterns of interaction between contexts, events and processes.

Author : David Michael Singleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614512820
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Multilingualism written by David Michael Singleton and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume approaches current multilingualism as a new linguistic dispensation, in urgent need of research-led, reflective scrutiny. The book addresses the emergent global and local patterns of multingual use and acquisition across the world and explores the major trends that characterize today's multilingualism. Its fifteen chapters discuss a range of issues relating to the quintessential and unique properties of multilingual situations.

Author : Mark Leikin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940072327X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Issues in Bilingualism written by Mark Leikin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As populations become more mobile, so interest grows in bi- and multilingualism, particularly in the context of education. This volume focuses on the singular situation in Israel, whose complex multiculturalism has Hebrew and Arabic as official languages, English as an academic and political language, and tongues such as Russian and Amharic spoken by immigrants. Presenting research on bi- and trilingualism in Israel from a multitude of perspectives, the book focuses on four aspects of multilingualism and literacy in Israel: Arabic-Hebrew bilingual education and Arabic literacy development; second-language Hebrew literacy among immigrant children; literacy in English as a second/third language; and adult bilingualism. Chapters dissect findings on immigrant youth education, language impairment in bilinguals, and neurocognitive features of bilingual language processing. Reflecting current trends, this volume integrates linguistics, sociology, education, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

Author : Jorge Pinto
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961102961
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multilingualism and third language acquisition written by Jorge Pinto and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to present recent studies in the field of multilingualism and L3, bringing together contributions from an international group of specialists from Austria, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and United States. The main focuses of the articles are three: language acquisition, language learning and teaching. A collection of theoretical and empirical articles from scholars of multilingualism and language acquisition makes the book a significant resource as the papers present a wide perspective from main theories to current issues, reflecting new trends in the field. The authors focus on the heterogeneity and complexity that characterize third language acquisition, multilingual learning and teaching. As the issues addressed in this book intersect, it represents an asset and therefore the texts will be of great relevance for the scientific community. Part I presents different topics of L3 acquisition, such as syntax, phonology, working memory and selective attention, and lexicon. Part II comprises texts that show how the research on language acquisition informs pedagogical issues. For instance, the role of the knowledge of previous languages in the teaching of L3, the attitudes of multilingual teachers to plurilingual approaches, and the benefits of crosslinguistic pedagogy versus classroom monolingual bias. In sequence, Part III consists of texts on individual learning strategies, such as motivation and attitudes, crosslinguistic awareness, and students’ perceptions about teachers’ “plurilingual nonnativism”. All these chapters include several different languages in contact in an acquisition/learning context: Basque, English, French, German, Italian, Ladin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Author : Peter Siemund
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027272212
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas written by Peter Siemund and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the-art volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of current topics and research foci in the areas of linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism and aims to lay the foundations for interdisciplinary work and the development of a common methodological framework for the field. Linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism are complex, mufti-faceted phenomena that need to be studied from different, complementary perspectives. The volume comprises a total of fourteen contributions from linguistic, educationist, and urban sociological perspectives and highlights the areas of language acquisition, contact and change, multilingual identities, urban spaces, and education. Linguistic diversity can be framed as a result of current processes of migration and globalization. As such the topic of the present volume addresses both a general audience interested in migration and globalization on a more general level, and a more specialized audience interested in the linguistic repercussions of these large-scale societal developments.

Author : Rosita Rindler Schjerve
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847697348
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Multilingualism written by Rosita Rindler Schjerve and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding on the results of the EU project LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), this book pursues a multi-focal approach which elaborates on European Multilingualism as an ongoing process of shaping policy and generating scientific knowledge.

Author : David Singleton
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788922085
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twelve Lectures on Multilingualism written by David Singleton and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new textbook offers an accessible introduction to many of the most interesting areas in the study of multilingualism. It consists of twelve lectures, written by leading researchers, each dedicated to a particular topic of importance. Each lecture offers a state-of-the-art, authoritative review of a subdiscipline of the field. The volume sheds light on the ways in which the use and acquisition of languages are changing, providing new insights into the nature of contemporary multilingualism. It will be of interest both to undergraduate and postgraduate students working in linguistics-related disciplines and students in associated social sciences.

Author : Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367030032
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multilingualism and L2 Acquisition written by Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years we have witnessed a growing interest in multilingualism and its relationship with the learning and teaching of second/foreign languages. However, multilingualism is a highly complex phenomenon, which has a direct influence on how we learn languages. For instance, do we learn a second/foreign language in a similar way in a multilingual context as in a monolingual one? What is the role of the other languages spoken in the community? Do contrasting learning contexts, like CLIL or studying abroad, produce different results? Can positive emotions such as foreign language enjoyment have an active role in the foreign language learning process? These and other topics will be discussed in this book, with the aim of understanding multilingualism, how languages are learned and how to teach them better. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Multilingualism.

Author : Laura Portolés Falomir
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443874922
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning and Using Multiple Languages written by Laura Portolés Falomir and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the latest findings from research on multilingual language learning and use in multilingual communities. Suzanne Flynn, Håkan Ringbom and Larissa Aronin are some of the prestigious scholars who have contributed to this book. As argued by this last author in her chapter, although multilingualism has always existed, the important changes that research on this phenomenon has recently undergone, like that of adopting a multilingual perspective in its studies, should always be borne in mind. This volume considers the languages of multilingual communities, as well as the interaction among them. As such, the chapters adopt a multilingual approach that guides the analysis of grammatical, lexical and pragmatic development together with the role of affective and social factors in multilingual settings. Furthermore, this edited monograph is not restricted to an age group in the scope of its studies, as it contains research on children, teenagers, young adults and adults. In addition, it covers a wide range of sociolinguistic settings, including English-speaking countries, like the United Kingdom and Canada, and Northern and Central European contexts such as Sweden and Germany, as well as Southern settings like Spain and Tunisia. This book will be relevant to both researchers and teachers due to its educational and sociolinguistic orientation, dealing as it does with language learners from various multilingual communities and describing the social representation of languages and the measures for their promotion.

Author : Joseph Lo Bianco
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030523365
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dominant Language Constellations written by Joseph Lo Bianco and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to the concept and several applications of Dominant Language Constellations (DLC), by which it advances understanding of current multilingualism through addition of a novel perspective from which to view contemporary language use and acquisition. The term Dominant Language Constellation denotes the set of a person’s or group's most expedient languages, functioning as an entire unit and enabling an individual or group to meet their needs in a multilingual environment. The volume presents pioneering contributions that employ DLC as the lens for analysing a wide array of issues. These include multilingual syntactic development, cross-linguistic interaction and multilingual production in formal and informal educational contexts, as well as linguistic profiles of multilingual groups used in elementary school and higher education. Other DLC issues include discussions of how identity, emotions and attitudes operate in various minority and majority contexts. Because the DLC concept does not assume any inherent hierarchy of languages it can serve as a framework public policy in multilingual countries/communities faced with challenging policy determinations regarding choice of languages for use in education settings and more widely in social institutions and the economy. Some chapters develop and extend the DLC concept, others adapt and apply it to a variety of contexts, both global and local. Many chapters feature educational and social settings across large parts of the world– Africa, Australia, Europe, North America (Canada and the USA) and Southeast Asia. The volume can serve as supplementary reading for courses on multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, educational linguistics, Second and Third Language Acquisition.