Multilingualism and Education
Researchers' Pathways and Perspectives

Researchers working at the intersections of language and education reflect on how their life experiences have informed their research.

Gail Prasad (Edited by), Nathalie Auger (Edited by), Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman (Edited by)

9781316517079, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 June 2022

300 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.4 cm, 0.61 kg

For decades, international researchers and educators have sought to understand how to address cultural and linguistic diversity in education. This book offers the keys to doing so: it brings together short biographies of thirty-six scholars, representing a wide range of universities and countries, to allow them to reflect on their own personal life paths, and how their individual life experiences have led to and informed their research. This approach highlights how theories and concepts have evolved in different contexts, while opening up pedagogical possibilities from diverse backgrounds and enriched by the life experiences of leading researchers in the field. Beyond these questions, the book also explores the dynamic relationships between languages, power and identities, as well as how these relationships raise broader societal issues that permeate both global and local language practices. It is essential reading for students, teacher educators, and researchers interested in the impact of multilingualism on education.

1. Humanizing research(ers) and understanding how concepts evolve in context Gail Prasad, Nathalie Auger and Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman
2. Become a teacher-researcher to find your Turkish Mehmet-Ali Akinci
3. Between languages, norms and social variations Nathalie Auger
4. Learning to language, learning to live: an essay on literacies of language learning Theresa Austin
5. A retrospective look at multi/pluri/linguistic transformations Francis Bangou
6. Multilingualism as lived, felt and evolving through dialogue and melody of life Dat Bao and Phan Le Ha
7. Revisiting the 'Plurilingual-intercultural' orthodoxy Jean-Claude Beacco
8. The languages that started to flourish in our childhood, developed over time into beautiful blooming meadows Mercè Bernaus and Emilee Moore
9. On the borderline between languages and knowledge Marisa Cavalli
10. Multilingualism as part of social reality Viktorija L. A. ?eginskas
11. Some elements of family history and language biography Daniel Coste
12. My trajectory in languages and language learning Diane Dagenais
13. Multilingualism as norm: advocating for Equity for multilingual learners Ester de Jong
14. From patois to inter-comprehension issues Pierre Escudé
15. Biography, linguistic coexistence, and epistemological reflection Carole Fleuret
16. Fighting off zombies in France's multilingual education Gilles Forlot
17. From language planning to the didactization of plurilingualism: a Swiss perspective Laurent Gajo
18. A sociolinguistic biography and understandings of bilingualism Ofelia García
19. Experiential and research journey: questioning linguistic and cultural otherness Cécile Goï
20. Multimodality and multilingualism: biographical notes, key concepts, and practices Maureen Kendrick
21. Researching multilingualism and language education across borders and over decades Kendall A. King
22. Possible selves Claire Kramsch
23. Feeling at home across languages, schools and countries Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman
24. From monolingual habitus to plurilingual education David Little
25. My path towards awareness of languages and linguistic diversity Marie-Paule Lory
26. A personal journey: school, social class, and language Jeff MacSwan
27. Cultivating plurilingual gardens Enrica Piccardo
28. Unbecoming a monolingual anglophone Gail Prasad
29. From plurilingual experiences to pluri-artistic practices Elatiana Razafimandimbimanana
30. A personal and professional journey to multilingualism Nikolay Slavkov (??????? ???????)
31. Journey towards a translanguaging pedagogy for social justice: from school French to critical race theory Heather Jane Smith
32. From language biography to a research life's journey Shelley K. Taylor
33. My linguistic biography Kelleen Toohey
34. Travelling back and forth between local language variation and global multilingualism Piet van Avermaet and Sven Sierens
35. A reflection on generational diaspora and resulting linguistic acclimatization Rahat Zaidi
36. On language(s), education and dynamic language users: final words and future directions Nathalie Auger, Gail Prasad Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman
Index.

Subject Areas: Language teaching theory & methods [CJA], Bilingualism & multilingualism [CFDM], Language acquisition [CFDC], Language: history & general works [CBX]