Multilingualism and minority languages : achievements and challenges in education
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Multilingualism and minority languages : achievements and challenges in education
(AILA review, v. 21)
John Benjamins, c2008
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume includes research by specialists in minority languages and multilingual education from five European regions (Basque Country, Catalonia, Friesland, Ireland and Wales). In their educational contexts, the minority languages discussed are in contact with other, stronger languages which are majority languages in each of the regions (Spanish in the Basque Country and Catalonia, Dutch in Friesland, English in Ireland and Wales) and also with further languages of international communication. This issue of AILA Review analyzes the results of research conducted on bilingual and multilingual programs in which a unique minority language is used as one of the languages of instruction. Specifically it looks at the results of research studies on proficiency in the majority, minority and other languages, academic outcomes and attitudes. It also examines challenges of teaching through a minority language in a changing world facing globalization, immigration as well as the spread of English. These minority language programs have their own characteristics but their analysis and evaluation provide useful information for other languages in similar situations.
Table of Contents
- 1. Foreword (by Cummins, Jim)
- 2. Articles
- 3. Applied Linguistics and the use of minority languages in education (by Cenoz, Jasone)
- 4. Achievements and challenges in bilingual and multilingual education in the Basque Country (by Cenoz, Jasone)
- 5. Language-in-education policies in the Catalan language area (by Moreno, F. Xavier Vila i)
- 6. The declining role of primary schools in the revitalisation of Irish (by Harris, John)
- 7. Current challenges in bilingual education in Wales (by Lewis, W. Gwyn)
- 8. Developments in bilingual Frisian-Dutch education in Friesland (by Gorter, Durk)
- 9. Postlude (by Baker, Collin)
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