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Multilingual Higher Education Christa van der Walt

Multilingual Higher Education By Christa van der Walt

Multilingual Higher Education by Christa van der Walt


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This book argues that a multilingual approach to higher education is imperative in an increasingly globalised education environment. This book addresses the need to acknowledge other languages explicitly in classroom instruction and in student learning to improve student success, to widen access and to internationalise institutions.

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Multilingual Higher Education: Beyond English Medium Orientations by Christa van der Walt

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 Garcia, the book extends strategies and techniques from bilingual education at school level to multilingual higher education.

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Trailblazing in its challenge of the sole role of English in shaping multilingual higher education, this book not only offers readers practical information on structures and pedagogies being used in multilingual higher education across the globe, but theorizes what it all means in a context of widened access to universities and increased transnational mobility. A comprehensive, well-written integration of scholarship on multiliteracies, language planning, pedagogies, and higher education that is bound to become a classic in its field.

* Ofelia Garc *

Multilingualism in higher education is increasingly important with regard to the growing mobility of students across the globe and the hidden influence that higher education has on curricula of secondary and primary education, promoting English as a 'lingua franca' for instance. Van der Walt has written an overview of research in this pressing field of multilingualism, presenting a model of critical insight. It conveys with remarkable context-sensitive understanding the situation of higher education in this time of globalization to the researcher and interested scholar.

* Gudrun Ziegler, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg *

About Christa van der Walt

Christa van der Walt is Professor of Language Education in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University. Her research interests include language-in-education, English language teaching in multilingual contexts and multilingual education. She is the author of Multilingual Higher Education: Beyond English-medium Orientations (2013).

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Theoretical Orientation: The Special Place of Higher Education

Chapter 2: Linguistic Diversity in Higher Education: Official and Unofficial Multilingual Settings

Chapter 3: Managing the Consequences of Widened Access and Transnational Mobility: The Development of Multiliteracies

Chapter 4: Multilingual Pedagogy in HE Classrooms: Approaches and Techniques

Chapter 5: From Mono to Multi: New Thinking about Higher Education

Additional information

GOR013369026
9781847699183
1847699189
Multilingual Higher Education: Beyond English Medium Orientations by Christa van der Walt
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Channel View Publications Ltd
2013-04-12
216
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