1st ed. 2019 Edition
by B. Gloria Guzmán Johannessen (Editor)
This volume presents a
multinational perspective on the juxtaposition of language and politics.
Bringing together an international group of authors, it offers
theoretical and historical constructs on bilingualism and bilingual
education. It highlights the sociocultural complexities of bilingualism
in societies where indigenous and other languages coexist with colonial
dominant and other prestigious immigrant languages. It underlines the
linguistic diaspora and expansion of English as the world’s lingua
franca and their impact on indigenous and other minority languages.
Finally, it features models of language teaching and teacher education.
This
book challenges the existent global conditions of non-dominant
languages and furthers the discourse on language politics and policies.
It does so by pointing out the need to change the bilingual/multilingual
educational paradigm across nations and all levels of educational
systems.
