Multilingual Matters Limited

Presenting data from a five year ethnographic study combined with a 40 year span of policy analysis, this volume is a rare book length treatment of the chasm between imagined policy and its...

Reviewing the field of language policy and planning, this text sets out current practice and ways of thinking about language policy and planning, looking at methodology and the key areas of...

This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship'. The authors use local contexts to foreground how the vulnerable, particularly those from minority language backgrounds, continue to be excluded,...

This book analyses policy development in six countries where, because of its association with colonial expansion, English has become the dominant language and hence the language of power, government...

The book explores the way our traditionally monolingual school systems are being challenged by students from diverse language backgrounds, forcing educationalists to question entrenched ideologies of...

This volume deals with multilingualism in higher education by focusing on a number of medium-sized languages. It explores how these languages achieved the status of lingua academica, reviews the...

This book outlines the case of the English-only movement and educational language policy in Arizona. It ranges from early Prop 203 implementation to an investigation of what Structured English...

This book is provides a review of the legal status of minority languages in the US and provides the historical and political context for the legal manoeuvring that culminated in landmark civil rights...

This book provides an inspiring approach to passing on two or more languages to your children through a focus on the one-person one-language approach. The book is grounded in academic research, but...

This book enables parents in trilingual families to consider possible language strategies suited to their individual circumstances. It includes a tool for diagnostic self-analysis that allows each...

This book explores the development of the first cohort of students to complete a new Bachelor of Education in English language teaching in the United Arab Emirates, theorizing the students' learning...

This book explores how language teacher identity influences and is influenced by wellbeing. It develops our understanding of this interaction through a combination of Indigenous, psychological,...

Based on an extended ethnographic study of a dual language (Spanish-English) Kindergarten, this book critically examines children's linguistic (and non-linguistic) interactions and the ways that...

This book presents an empirical account of how neoliberal ideas are adopted on the ground by different actors in different educational settings. It aims to produce a complex understanding of how...

This book uses a micro-analysis of language in and around Tanzanian beauty pageants to address structural inequalities, gender relations, globalization, as well as educational and language policy...

This collection provides an account of the ways language addresses core questions concerning power and the place of migrants in various institutional and workplace settings. It brings together...

This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also the ways in which power...

Language, Space, and Power describes the sociolinguistic and sociocultural life of a Spanish-English dual language classroom in which attention is given to not only the language learning processes at...

This book studies how language-in-education policies for additional language learning discursively construct ideologies of the relationships between languages and their speakers. It offers a critical...

This book provides an accessible and academically rigorous commentary on immigrant young adults' educational experiences. With a particular emphasis on Latino immigrants, this book is the first of...

This book employs a narrative policy portraiture approach to recenter the stories of those involved in the Lau v. Nichols court case. It brings Chinese and Chinese American voices to the forefront,...

This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children in primary school settings. It covers issues that have been under-researched within this group of learners such as...

This textbook introduces students to language in education policy, theory and practice in a multilingual world. Designed to be accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines, it explores...

This book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies...

This book explores how lexical competence develops in a foreign language, and also argues for the importance of lexical accuracy as a measure of the quality of foreign language writing and as an...

This book explores how lexical competence develops in a foreign language, and also argues for the importance of lexical accuracy as a measure of the quality of foreign language writing and as an...

Lexical inferencing is a central process in both reading comprehension and word learning through reading. This volume presents a comprehensive review of second language lexical inferencing and a...

This book presents studies at the cutting edge of second language vocabulary research by authors whose work represents much of the current focus and direction of investigation in this area. Various...

This book is an anthology of articles on teaching English to speakers of other languages. The emphasis is on practical concerns of classroom procedures and on the cross-cultural aspects of teaching...

This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic...