Bicultural and trilingual education : the Foyer Model in Brussels
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Bicultural and trilingual education : the Foyer Model in Brussels
（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 54）
Multilingual Matters, c1990
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This is a collection of articles which describe and assess the Foyer Model, a project for schooling minority children in Brussels, which aims for bicultural and trilingual education. It demonstrates the need for an appropriate education model in a culturally and linguistically complex society. The Foyer Model was created to help Spanish, Moroccan, Italian and Turkish children in Brussels. It recognizes the need for proficiency in their home language and also in the two languages of Brussels - French and Dutch. It also aims to ease any conflicts between their culture of origin and their host culture. This book originated in evaluations conducted as the first pupils ended their primary school careers. It assesses the model's success so far and reports on those who work with it every day. This is not an exhaustive account, but rather an introduction to the programme's main characteristics and its importance to Europe as a whole.
Table of Contents
Preface
Michael Byram and Johan Leman: Introduction
1. Johan Leman: Multilingualism as Norm, Monolingualism as Exception: The Foyer Model in Brussels
2. Koen Jaspaerl and Gertrud Lemmens: Linguistic Evaluation of Dutch as a Third Language
3. Loredana Marchi: Language in Immigration: Creativity and Linguistic Mobility
4. Marcel Danesi: Mother Tongue Literacy and the 'Shaping' of Knowledge: The Experience' of the Italian Children
5. Michael Byram: Return to the Home Country: The 'Necessary Dream' in Ethnic Identity
6. Jose A. Fernandez de Rota y Monter and Maria del Pilar lrimia Fernandez: Linguistic Correction and Semantic Skills in the Spanish Children
7. Kathleen Snoeck: Language and the Teaching of Mathematics to Turkish Children
8. Michael Byram: Teachers and Pupils: The Significance of Cultural Identity
9. Ludo Smeekens: Structural Change: From Monocultural to Bicultural Schools
10. Michael Byram and Johan Leman: Looking to the Future
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