Multilingual Higher Education: Beyond English Medium Orientations - Couverture souple

Van Der Walt, Christa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847699189 ISBN 13 : 9781847699183

Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2013

Synopsis

The general perception that a good command of English is enough to gain access and to be successful in higher education hides the complexity of learning and teaching in multilingual environments, and this book shows that all higher education environments are multilingual to some extent. Strategies like translation, interpreting and switching from one language to another not only support learning but also build competence for multilingual professional environments. Whether institutions focus on widening access to minoritised communities or whether they want to attract more international students, the book argues that a multilingual pedagogy is needed to improve student access and success. Building on work by Nancy Hornberger, Colin Baker and Ofelia García, the book extends strategies and techniques from bilingual education at school level to multilingual higher education.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christa van der Walt has been teaching in South African multilingual environments for the past 25 years. Her experience includes secondary schools and higher education institutions in privileged as well as township contexts. The acknowledgement of other languages in the classroom, and in English language classrooms in particular, has been an important theme in her work since the late nineties. In the South African context this stance is particularly important as a means to widen access to higher education and to increase the status of minoritised languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Multilingual Matters
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847699189
• ISBN 13: 9781847699183
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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