Plurilingual Education in a Monolingualised Nation

Download or read book Plurilingual Education in a Monolingualised Nation written by Daniel Roy Pearce and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2024-11-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores alternative approaches to foreign language education in a context which is traditionally dominated by English-only approaches, and widely viewed as highly monolingual. It examines the grassroots classroom practices of teachers and their assistants involved in plurilingual education in the first longitudinal research of its type in the Japanese context. These practices are grounded in depictions of the practitioners’ personal and professional trajectories through explorations of their visual linguistic autobiographies. The holistic ethnography thus deepens understanding of plurilingualism in a hitherto underexplored context, and should be of interest to students and researchers of language teaching, teacher training, language policy, sociolinguistics and plurilingualism.