Multilingual Teaching: The Missing Piece

by Roma Chumak-Horbatsch

Overview

This book lays out a radical new all-in approach to teaching in linguistically diverse classrooms: that everyone, including those who already speak the school language, is included in multilingual pedagogy. The author argues that school language speakers are the missing piece in multilingual teaching and provides a new resource, Linguistically Appropriate Practice Plus (LAP+) to help teachers engage these learners in meaningful language tasks and support their language skills and interests. With all learners on board, multilingual teaching becomes pedagogy that is fully inclusive and linguistically fair.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800410947
Publisher:	Channel View Publications
Publication date:	01/14/2025
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Roma Chumak-Horbatsch has recently retired from Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, where her teaching and research focused on language learning, bilingualism and multilingual pedagogy. She continues to work with teachers to support multilingual teaching that is open to all learners. She is the author of Using Linguistically Appropriate Practice: A Guide for Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms (2019, Multilingual Matters).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Multilingual Teaching and Learning Glossary

The Missing Piece Investigation: Themes and Topics

Theme 1. The Backstory: How it all Happened

Theme 2. School Language Speakers: A Language Profile

Theme 3. LAP+: A New Resource

Theme 4. LAP+ Stands Strong

Theme 5. The Language-Rich Classroom

Theme 6. LAP+ Teachers

Theme 7. LAP+ in Action

Theme 8. How Language Works

In Closing

Index

Editorial Reviews

In this highly accessible and engaging book, Roma Chumak-Horbatsch extends the scope of Linguistically Appropriate Practice to include monolingual native speakers of the school language. Supported by vivid case studies and engaging language activities, the book convincingly demonstrates how an instructional focus on language awareness and exploration generates intellectual, linguistic, and personal power for students and teachers alike.

Jim Cummins

In this book, Roma Chumak-Horbatsch draws attention to language itself and its role as a human rights issue. I particularly appreciated how the holistic view of learning is presented through several factors, such as the emphasis on language justice and the classroom as a space for language learning. This book will certainly help teachers better understand the complex world of multilingual learners and speakers.

Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir