Harnessing Linguistic Variation to Improve Education

Androula Yiakoumetti is an applied linguist at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on regional and social variation within linguistic systems and, more specifically, on the implications of such variation for education. She is interested in sociolinguistic aspects of linguistic variation and works within the research fields of multidialectism and multilingualism, second-language acquisition and language-teacher development. Her publications span a variety of language issues including bidialectism, language attitudes, learning of English as a foreign language and language-teacher training.

• Contents: Androula Yiakoumetti: Rethinking Linguistic Diversity in Education – Stephen May: Educational Approaches to Minorities: Context, Contest and Opportunities – Ofelia García/Nelson Flores/Heather Homonoff Woodley: Transgressing Monolingualism and Bilingual Dualities: Translanguaging Pedagogies – Suresh Canagarajah/Madhav Kafle/Yumi Matsumoto: World Englishes in Local Classrooms – Sandra Lee McKay: English as an International Language, Multilingualism and Language Planning – Linda Tsung: Rethinking Multilingual Education for Minority Students in China – Peter Garrett/Josep M. Cots/David Lasagabaster/Enric Llurda: Internationalization and the Place of Minority Languages in Universities in Three European Bilingual Contexts: A Comparison of Student Perspectives in the Basque Country, Catalonia and Wales – Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu: The Medium-of-Instruction Conundrum and ‘Minority’ Language Development in Africa – Jessica Ball/Barbara May Hanford Bernhardt: Standard English as a Second Dialect: A Canadian Perspective – Ian G. Malcolm/Adriano Truscott: English Without Shame: Two-Way Aboriginal Classrooms in Australia – Jeff Siegel: Educational Approaches for Speakers of Pidgin and Creole Languages – Androula Yiakoumetti: The Dangers of Dialects: Debunking (or Substantiating) the Myths.

«(...) el reseñado es un excelente volumen que muestra la necesidad de incorporar la variación lingüística a la educación, revirtiendo el monolitismo tradicional.» (Victor M. Longa, Encuentro 15, 2013/15)