Multilingualism and multimodality : current challenges for educational studies / edited by Ingrid de Saint-Georges and Jean-Jacques Weber.

In the social sciences and humanities, researchers often qualify the period in which we are living as late-modern, post-modern or superdiverse. These terms seek to capture changing conditions and priorities brought about by a new social order. This social order is characterized, among other traits,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Saint-Georges, Ingrid de, 1973- (Editor), Weber, Jean Jacques (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam, Netherlands : Sense Publishers, [2013]
Series:Future of education research ; v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Multilingualism, multimodality and the future of education research / Ingrid de Saint-Georges
  • Multilingualism. Superdiverse repertoires and the individual / Jan Blommaert and Ad Backus
  • From Multilingual practices to social processes / Luisa Martín Rojo
  • Language, superdiversity and education / Adrian Blackledge, Angela Creese and Jaspreet Kaur Takhi
  • Multilingualism in Eu institutions / Ruth Wodak
  • Multilingual Universities and the Monolingual mindset / Jean-Jacques Weber and Kristine Horner
  • Multimodality. Recognizing learning / Gunther Kress
  • Multimodality and digital technologies in the classroom / Carey Jewitt
  • Power, miscommunication and cultural diversity / Laurent Filliettaz, Stefano Losa and Barbara Duc
  • Geographies of discourse / Ron Scollon.