Pluricentric Languages and Language Education Pedagogical Implications and Innovative Approaches to Language Teaching

• Main Authors: Callies, Marcus, Hehner, Stefanie
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Taylor & Francis 2023; Routledge; Taylor and Francis; Multiple Funders
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research in Language Education
• Subjects: Bilingual Education; Bilingualism; curriculum design; Education; ESL; Essays. lcgft; Language and Education; Language and languages > Study and teaching; Language and languages > Variation; language attitudes; language awareness; language comparison; Language Teaching & Learning; language variation; linguistic diversity; Modern Foreign Languages; Pluricentric languages; Pluricentricity; reflective practice; School management, special education; Society and Social Sciences; teacher cognition; teacher education; Teachers & Teacher Education; Peninsular Variety; Pluricentric Approach; Corpus Proportions; teacher education; British English Variety; language awareness; Part III; EFL Teaching; Vice Versa; Peninsular Spanish; Elt; Spanish Language; Elt Professional; language attitudes; Pre-service Teachers; Pre-service Spanish Teachers; Surinamese Dutch; curriculum design; linguistic diversity; reflective practice; language comparison; Pluricentric Languages; Subject Specific Didactics; German Teacher Education; Belgian Dutch; European Portuguese; EIL; language variation; Lingua Franca; Foreign Language Teaching; Pluricentricity; Subject Matter Content Knowledge; teacher cognition
• ISBN: 9781000812527; 1000812529; 9781032156965; 1032156961; 9781032164342; 1032164344
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003248552

This book maps out the pedagogical implications of the global spread and diversification of pluricentric languages for language education and showcases new approaches that can take account of linguistic diversity. Moving the discussion of contemporary norms, aims, and approaches to pluricentric languages in language education beyond English, this book provides a multilingual, comparative perspective through case study examples of Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, and Vietnamese. The chapters document, compare, and evaluate existing practices in the teaching of pluricentric languages, and highlights different pedagogical approaches that embrace their variability and diversity. Presenting approaches to overcome barriers to innovation in language education, the book will be of great interest to academics, researchers, doctoral students in the field of language education, as well as socio- and applied linguists. Practitioners interested in linguistic diversity more broadly will also find this book engaging.