Multilingual Classroom Ecologies : Inter-Relationship, Interactions and Ideologies.

Intro -- Contents -- Multilingual Classroom Ecologies: Inter-relationships, Interactions and Ideologies -- Legal Discourse and Decisions, Teacher Policymaking and the Multilingual Classroom: Constraining and Supporting Khmer/English Biliteracy in the United States -- Interactions and Inter-relationships Around Text: Practices and Positionings in a Multilingual Classroom in Brunei -- Talk Around Text: Literacy Practices, Cultural Identity and Authority in a Corsican Bilingual Classroom -- Language, Ethnicity and the Mediation of Allegations of Racism: Negotiating Diversity and Sameness in Multilingual School Discourses -- Constructing Discursive Practices in School and Community: Bilingualism, Gender and Power -- 'Baro Afkaaga Hooyo!' A Case Study of Somali Literacy Teaching in Liverpool -- Bilingual Resources and 'Funds of Knowledge' for Teaching and Learning in Multi-ethnic Classrooms in Britain -- Foreign-born Teachers in the Multilingual Classroom in Sweden: The Role of Attitudes to Foreign Accent -- Afterword: Ecology and Ideology in Multilingual Classrooms.

This book studies the multilingual classroom and the interrelationships, interactions and ideologies that apply in such classrooms. Drawing on studies from different multilingual communities across the world, it demonstrates the complex nature of the multilingual classroom, and provides a number of perspectives for an international audience.

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