Minority Languages and Multilingual Education Bridging the Local and the Global

• Main Authors: Gorter, Durk, Cenoz, Jasone, Zenotz, Victoria
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2014
• Subjects: Language and languages; Sociolinguistics; Applied linguistics; Education; LC8; Jaume; Mi’gmaq; Sámi
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2078/ebook:44655; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7317-2

This book presents research on the situation minority language schoolchildren face when they need to learn languages of international communication, in particular English. The book takes minority languages as a starting point and it bridges local and global perspectives in the analysis of multilingu...