Language and Education in Multilingual Settings by Bernard Spolsky

Language and Education in Multilingual Settings by Bernard Spolsky

The difference between languages that children learn in the home (their mother tongues) and the languages valued by society and established as the medium of instruction in schools is an almost universal problem in educational systems. Proposals for mother tongue education, for bilingual programmes of various kinds, or for more effective teaching of literary or standard languages all depend on an understanding of the underlying problem of language education in multilingual settings. The writers of Language and Education in Multilingual Settings do not have a single view of the issues, for they are international in background and experience, and interdisciplinary in training and approach; moreover, as will be clear, they differ in political and philosophical beliefs, in scholarly rhetoric, in research paradigms and in personal circumstances. In this book, researchers from India, Yugoslavia, the USSR, the USA, New Zealand, Zambia, Denmark, Australia, and Israel discuss practice and theory in various parts of the world.

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ISBN 13	9780585175874
ISBN 10	058517587X
Title	Language and Education in Multilingual Settings
Author	Bernard Spolsky
Series	Multilingual Matters
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	netLibrary, a division of OCLC
Year published	1986-10-15
Number of pages	207
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