Description
| Product ID: | 9781800413573 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights |
| Title: | Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners |
| Subtitle: | A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts |
| Authors: | Author: Jim Cummins |
| Page Count: | 464 |
| Subjects: | Bilingualism and multilingualism, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Language teaching theory and methods, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Language teaching theory & methods, Teaching of specific groups & persons with special educational needs |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has originated theories which have had a profound effect on the education of multilingual learners across the world. In this book he traces the development of these theories, and addresses the critiques they have received and their subsequent impact on his thinking and the application of his theories in schools. Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility of critiques they have generated, using the criteria of empirical adequacy, logical coherence, and consequential validity. These criteria of theoretical legitimacy are also applied to the evaluation of two different versions of translanguaging theory – Unitary Translanguaging Theory and Crosslinguistic Translanguaging Theory – in a way that significantly clarifies this controversial concept. |
| Imprint Name: | Multilingual Matters |
| Publisher Name: | Multilingual Matters |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-09-06 |
