Plurilingual Pedagogy in the Arabian Peninsula: Transforming and Empowering Students and Teachers

ISBN-13: 9781032326450 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

Coelho, Daniela

Opis

This edited collection explores plurilingual education in the unique English Medium Instruction (EMI) context of the Arabian Peninsula. The book argues that integrating a plurilingual pedagogy alongside current EMI in the region could enhance students’ learning and contribute to a language policy.

Spis treści

Introduction. Part 1: Language planning, policy, and practices in the context of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in the Arabian Peninsula: Challenges and success stories. 1. Steering the Arabic Language Policy and Planning Agenda: The way forward for Arabic as a language of the future. 2. Current Discussions on Plurilingual Pedagogy: Language Learning Implications in the Arabian Peninsula. 3. Arabic language teacher training in the Arabian Peninsula: Great teachers don’t grow on trees. 4. Teacher education and EMI in the UAE and Arabian Peninsula - Past, present and future perspectives. Part 2: Empirical research on plurilingual education in the Arabian Peninsula context. 5. From binaries to plurality: Emirati college students’ perspectives on the plurilingual identities of English users and expatriate teachers. 6. Plurilingual pedagogy in Higher Education in the UAE: Student voices in an academic writing course. 7. Expanding communicative repertories through plurilingual pedagogies in international branch campus classrooms in Qatar. Part 3: Implications and applications of plurilingual pedagogy in teaching and learning. 8. Rethinking Learning and Teaching Using Plurilingual Pedagogy in the UAE: Challenges and success stories. 9. From theory to practice: Ways to implement plurilingual pedagogy in education institutions in the Arabian Peninsula.
Conclusion. Index.