Teaching Content and Language in the Multilingual Classroom: International Research on Policy, Perspectives, Preparation and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781032091617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Svenja Hammer; Kara Mitchell Viesca; Nancy L. Commins

Opis

This book brings together research from six different countries across three continents where teacher educators and policy makers are addressing the under-preparation of content teachers to work effectively with multilingual learners.

Spis treści

Foreword by Professor Ester de Jong

Introduction

PART 1: Policy

1 Multilingualism and Diversity in Northern Ireland Schools and Teacher Education

2 Multilingualism as a Resource: Policy Changes in Finnish Education

PART 2: Perspectives

3 Finnish teachers’ perspectives about linguistic and cultural diversity

4 Content Teacher Ideologies and Perspectives on Multilingual Learners

PART 3: Preparation

5 Mediating Theory & Practice for Multilingual Learners in Initial Teacher Education in England

6 Pre-Service Teachers´ Competency Development and Opportunities to Learn in Teaching Multilingual Learners in Germany

PART 4: Practice

7 Mainstream Teachers for Successful Multilingual Classrooms: The Case of a School

that Embraced a Genre-based Pedagogy to Teach Writing

8 Teachers’ professional learning and practice with multilingual Pacific/Pasifikalearners in Aotearoa New Zealand

Conclusion

O autorze

Svenja Hammer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany and an affiliated researcher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her research focuses on the inter(national) comparison of pre-service teachers’ competencies and beliefs regarding multilingual learners.

Kara Mitchell Viesca is an Associate Professor of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her research focuses on advancing equity in the policy and practice of educator development, particularly for teachers of multilingual students.

Nancy L. Commins is a Clinical Professor Emeritus from the University of Colorado, Denver, USA. Over the past four decades, she has worked as a bilingual classroom teacher, program director, school district administrator, university professor, and independent consultant assisting teachers, schools, districts, and states to improve instruction for multilingual learners.