A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners

Download or read book A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners written by Barbara Hofer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new extended framework for the study of early multicompetence. It proposes a concept of multilingual competences as a valuable educational target, and a view of the multilingual learner as a competent language user. The thematic focus is on multilingual skill development in primary schoolers in the trilingual province of South Tyrol, northern Italy. A wide range of topics pertaining to multicompetence building and the special affordances of multilingual pedagogy are explored. Key concepts like language proficiency, native-speakerism, or monolingual classroom bias are subjected to critical analysis.