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Identifies school language speakers as the missing piece in multilingual teaching.
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.
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.
Perhaps the most commendable feature of the book is Chumak-Horbatsch’s commitment to language awareness, her open celebration of multilingualism and her desire to equip teachers in language-rich classrooms with a tripartite combination of factual information, myth-busting, and hands-on activity suggestions. Undoubtedly, the book’s readability is one of its major strengths. Chumak-Horbatsch writes in plain, direct language comprehensible to readers new to the field of language education literature.
Multilingual Teaching: The Missing Piece offers a vital reimagining of multilingual education by weaving in speakers of the school language into the multilingual tapestry. Aptly practical, linguistically rights-centered, and easy to implement, the book is a timely and essential read for pre-and in-service educators, school leaders, and policy makers striving to create genuinely linguistically fair classrooms where all students' languages are seen as assets.
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).
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