21st Century Pre-school Bilingual Education (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Schwartz, Mila; Palviainen, Åsa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a timely focus on preschool bilingual education in the 21st century. It illustrates the need to examine early bilingual education within specific socio-cultural contexts, as well as to search for its universal features. It was first published as a special issue of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351189262
• Artikelnr.: 59362686

Autorenporträt

Mila Schwartz is Associate Professor in Language and Education and a Head of Language Program (MA) in Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel. Her research interests include studying language policy and models of early bilingual education; language, cognitive, and socio-cultural development of early sequential bilinguals; family language policy; and bilingual teachers' pedagogical development. Åsa Palviainen is a full Professor in Swedish at Department of Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research covers a wide range of topics including language policy issues and discourses (especially on the status of Swedish in the Finnish educational system and on bilingualism), discourse analytical and sociolinguistic approaches to early bi- and multilingualism, language policies and practices in early childhood education, family language policy research, and innovative L2 teaching and learning.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction- Twenty-first-century preschool bilingual education: facing
advantages and challenges in cross-cultural contexts 1. Two languages in
the air: a cross-cultural comparison of preschool teachers' reflections on
their flexible bilingual practices 2. Adult monolingual policy becomes
children's bilingual practice: code-alternation among children and staff in
an English-medium preschool in Sweden 3. The early childhood education and
care partnership for bilingualism in minority language schooling:
collaboration between bilingual families and pedagogical practitioners 4.
'Why do we know Hebrew and they do not know Arabic?' Children's
meta-linguistic talk in bilingual preschool 5. Nurturing bilingual
learners: challenges and concerns in Singapore 6. First-language skills of
bilingual Turkish immigrant children growing up in a Dutch submersion
context