Developing Pedagogies in the Multilingual Classroom

Developing Pedagogies in the Multilingual Classroom - The Writings of Josie Levine.

Description: 'Miss, where is fair?' a pupil new to English asked Josie Levine when she was still a classroom teacher. It is a question she never forgot and the writings collected in this book are all concerned with developing pedagogies that are as much about empowering pupils to fulfil their potential in the British educational system as they are with supporting their learning of English as an additional language.
Renowned editor Margaret Meek has traced Josie's pioneering arguments in a way that is enlightening to readers coming new to her work. That children learning English as an additional language are not in language centres but in mainstream classrooms is the norm today. In order to receive their statutory entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum, bilingual learners should obviously be given language support in the context of their mainstream classroom. But this was not the case in the years when Josie began her teaching career and this book celebrates her leading role in this fundamental shift in both the management and pedagogy of English language teaching.

Developing Pedagogies in the Multilingual Classroom not only highlights the arguments for the shift but also clearly delineates the approaches and strategies that practising and student teachers should use to support children for whom English is an additional language. With over 35,000 refugee children in British schools swelling the numbers who speak languages other than English in their homes, this is a timely and important book.

Selected and edited by: Margaret Meek

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