Language education and the challenges of globalisation : sociolinguistic issues

Language education and the challenges of globalisation : sociolinguistic issues / edited by Martin Solly and Edith Esch.

This book, by an international group of scholars, focuses on a number of sociolinguistic issues, some of them complex and controversial, linked to language education in the age of globalisation. It examines these in different contexts of immigration and super-diversity, in the light of new mobilitie...

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Other Authors: Solly, Martin, Esch, Edith, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Study and teaching > Social aspects > Congresses.
Sociolinguistics > Congresses.
Globalization > Congresses.
Second language acquisition > Congresses.
Sociolinguistics.
Bilingualism & multilingualism.
Education.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Readers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Spelling.
Globalization
Language and languages > Study and teaching > Social aspects
Sociolinguistics
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Language education in our globalised classrooms : recommendations on providing for equal language rights
  • Medium of instruction policy and multilingual pupils' experience of learning to read and write in primary school in Cameroon
  • Problematizing monolingual identities and competence in Guangzhou in the era of multilingualism and superdiversity
  • Language education of immigrant students : opening the black box(es)
  • languages in education and symbolic violence in Pakistan
  • English is (not) enough? The role of English in the Czech Republic
  • What is "aceptable"? The role of acceptability in English non-native speech
  • Identifying aspects of speech which decrease intelligibility in spoken interactions between non-native English speakers : a case study
  • University students' views on English and its role in Mexico.

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