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Tara Williams Fortune (Ed.) - Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education - 9781847690357 - V9781847690357
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Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education

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Immersion education serves as a highly successful pathway to multilingualism. This volume focuses on the evolution of perspectives and practices within language immersion education and showcases an international roster of scholars who offer theoretical perspectives, research reviews and empirical studies on teaching, learning and language development in immersion programs. This collection of studies and discussions represents three branches of immersion education, foreign language (“one-way”), bilingual (“two-way”) and indigenous immersion programs. Each branch has its unique situational dynamics to address, and such dynamics must be carefully considered particularly in the interpretation of research findings. Nevertheless, the volume’s co-editors argue that much ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847690357
SKU
V9781847690357
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Tara Williams Fortune (Ed.)
Tara Williams Fortune is an Immersion Teaching Specialist and Coordinator of the Immersion Projects at the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota. She is founding editor of The American Council on Immersion Education (ACIE) Newsletter, a publication written for and by immersion practitioners that is currently in its 14th year of dissemination. Her professional ... Read more

Reviews for Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education
ms in the one volume, and this book provides just that. The book has also been extremely well edited, and forms a coherent, cross referenced whole, rather than a series of unlinked chapters.
Dr Michele de Courcy, University of Melbourne, Australia
Pathways to Multilingualism invokes powerful images - of diverse language communities with distinct sociolinguistic backgrounds, varied routes ... Read more

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