Flexible multilingual education
Subtitle: putting children's needs first
By: Jean-Jacques Weber
Series: New perspectives on language and education -- 38
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bristol; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781783091997; 9781783091980; 9781783092000
Subjects: Multilingualism in children; Multilingual education; Children; Language
Description: This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and interests above the individual languages involved. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education - rather than mother tongue education - is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today's world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.