Flexible Multilingual Education

Jean-Jacques Weber is Professor of English and Education at the University of Luxembourg. His research interests include discourse analysis, and multilingualism and education, and he has recently co-authored Introducing Multilingualism (2012) and co-edited Multilingualism and Multimodality (2013).

• Acknowledgements1. IntroductionPart I2. Using Non-standard Varieties in Education3. The Issue of Access4. What Makes and Breaks a Good Language-in-education Policy? A Social PerspectivePart II5. The United States of America6. Hong Kong and China7. Singapore8. South Africa9. Luxembourg10. Three Autonomous Communities of Spain: Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia11. ConclusionReferencesIndex

Extremely readable, this book offers critical windows into a wide range of educational contexts illustrating different approaches to bilingual and multilingual education. The author sets the agenda for much needed future implementations of what he defines as flexible multilingual education by drawing lessons from the impact that each of the programs and policies analyzed has had on children's, parents' and society's language attitudes, ideologies and practices. All in all, a valuable resource for researchers, teachers and policy makers.