Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts - Couverture souple

Cummins, Jim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1800413572 ISBN 13 : 9781800413573

Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2021

Synopsis

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility of critiques they have generated, using the criteria of empirical adequacy, logical coherence, and consequential validity. These criteria of theoretical legitimacy are also applied to the evaluation of two different versions of translanguaging theory – Unitary Translanguaging Theory and Crosslinguistic Translanguaging Theory – in a way that significantly clarifies this controversial concept.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jim Cummins is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Canada and has spent the past 40 years researching and working with multilingual learners across the world. His controversial theoretical distinction between conversational versus academic language proficiency is a key topic in pre-service and professional development related to the education of minority group students who are learning the language of instruction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Multilingual Matters
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1800413572
• ISBN 13: 9781800413573
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible