Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

Jennifer Miller is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University where she teaches postgraduate TESOL courses. Her research and publications are in the areas of language acquisition and identity, the sociocultural framing of language pedagogy, and teacher’s work. Her book, Audible Difference: ESL and social identity (Multilingual Matters, 2003) explores the politics of speaking and identity for immigrant students in Australian high schools. Her current research concerns low literacy refugee students in the high school mainstream, and preservice teachers from non-English speaking backgrounds.Alex Kostogriz is Associate Professor in TESOL in the School of Education, Deakin University. He has published widely on issues of professional practice and ethics of English language educators, teacher professional identity and learning, transcultural literacy and pedagogy of Thirdspace. He has co-edited Dimensions of Professional Learning (2007), special issues of Mind, Culture & Activity and English Teaching: Practice & Critique on learning in multicultural conditions.Margaret Gearon is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. She specialises in language teacher education at both preservice and inservice levels, curriculum and assessment in foreign and community (heritage) languages, and bilingual education. Her research interests are in immersion education, code-switching in the foreign language classroom, and how the knowledge and beliefs of preservice languages teachers are manifested in their classroom practices. She is currently project director for the design of a teacher training course for community languages teachers in Australia.

• Part 1: Pedagogy in Diverse Classrooms1. The Challenges of Diversity in Language Education - Margaret Gearon, Jennifer Miller, Alex Kostogriz2. Multilingual Educational Systems: A Further Challenge for Immigrant Students - David Lasagabaster3. Teaching with an Accent: Linguistically Diverse Pre-service Teachers in Australian Classrooms - Jennifer Miller4. High Challenge, High Support Programs with ESL Learners: A Teacher–Researcher Collaboration - Jenny Hammond5. Language, Culture and Inclusion in Mainstream Classrooms - Karen Dooley6. Influences on the Written Expression of Bilingual Students: Teacher Beliefs and Cultural Dissonance - Joel WindlePart 2: Language Policy and Curriculum7. Dilemmas of Efficiency, Identity and Worldmindedness - Joseph Lo Bianco8. Professional Ethics in Multicultural Classrooms: English, Hospitality and The Other - Alex Kostogriz9. English as Additional Language across the Curriculum: Policies in Practice - Tracey Costley and Constant Leung10. Language Pedagogies Revisited: Alternative approaches for Integrating Language Learning, Language Using and Intercultural Understanding - Do Coyle11. Educating Languages Teachers for Multilingual and Multicultural Settings - Margaret GearonPart 3: Research Directions in Diverse Contexts12. Multilingual Researcher Identities: Interpreting Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms - Angela Creese, Arvind Bhatt and Peter Martin13. Negotiating Teacher-Researcher Collaboration in Immersion Education - Diane Dagenais, Danièle Moore and Cécile Sabatier14. Languages in the Classroom: Institutional Discourses and Users’ Experiences - Hannele Dufva and Olli-Pekka Salo15. Bringing Home and Community to School: Institutional Constraints and Pedagogic Possibilities - Suzanne Smythe and Kelleen Toohey

This book raises a range of philosophical and pedagogical issues of fundamental importance to those working in linguistically and culturally classrooms everywhere and deserves to become a key text for teacher education courses.