Dominant Language Constellations

A New Perspective on Multilingualism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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This volume is dedicated to the concept and several applications of Dominant Language Constellations (DLC), by which it advances understanding of current multilingualism through addition of a novel perspective from which to view contemporary language use and acquisition.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-09-08
Mått155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt678 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEducational Linguistics
Antal sidor282
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030523350

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Foreword Li Wei.-Introduction.- Chapter 1: The DLC: Concepts and Practical Applications: Joseph Lo Bianco and Larissa Aronin.- Part 1 Current Developments of DLC.- Chapter 2. Dominant Language Constellation as an approach for studying multilingual practices: Larissa Aronin (Israel).- Chapter 3. A Meeting of Concepts and Praxis: Multilingualism, Language Policy and the Dominant Language Constellation Joseph Lo Bianco (Australia).- Chapter 4. Where DLC meets multilingual syntactic development Eva Fernández-Berkeś and Suzanne Flynn (The USA and Austria).- Chapter 5. Shifting Multi-Layered Dominant Language Constellations in Dynamic Multilingual Contexts: African Perspectives Felix Banda (South Africa).- Part 2 Institutional expressions of DLC.- Chapter 6. Societal Versus Individual Patterns of DLCs in a Finnish Educational Context - Present State and Challenges for the Future Mikaela Björklund, Siv Björklund, and Kaj Sjöholm (Finland).- Chapter 7. Language Background Profiling at Canadian Elementary Schools and Dominant Language Constellations Nikolay Slavkov (Canada).- Chapter 8. Dominant language constellations in the language repertoires of multilingual South African students Susan Coetzee Van Rooy (South Africa).- Part 3 Personal and group experiences with DLC.- Chapter 9. The Evolution of personal Dominant Language Constellation Sarasi Kannangara (Germany).- Chapter 10. Dominant Language Constellations of Russian Speakers in Cyprus Sviatlana Karpava (Cyprus).- Chapter 11. Studying crosslinguistic interaction in multilingual production through the Dominant Language Constellation Stela Letica Krevelj (Croatia).- Chapter 12. A Dominant Language Constellations case study on language use and the affective domain Richard Mark Nightingale (Spain).- Conclusion – Chapter 13 Quo Vadis, DLC? Joseph Lo Bianco. Name index.- Subject index.

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