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Multilingual pedagogies in mainstream classrooms: Responses to some common dilemmas
Multilingual pedagogies in mainstream classrooms: Responses to some common dilemmas Today, multilingualism is an everyday feature of many classrooms. Students may learn foreign languages at school, or bring their home languages to school. Some students speak the language of schooling, others are yet in the process of learning it. All these different individual situations of…
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The role of schools in family multilingualism
The role of schools in family multilingualism Today many children grow up in multilingual families where they use two or more languages on an everyday basis. Families create their own family multilingualism. It involves explicit and implicit processes at home by family members that shape language and literacy use, language learning, maintenance and loss[i]. Family…
Stories of multilingualism: Connecting families and schools through visual narratives