Provides educators with the specialized knowledge they need to best support multilingual children

Provides educators with the specialized knowledge they need to best support multilingual children.

This book prepares educators for the multilingual classroom, exploring the role of languages in learning across home, school and community contexts.

With up-to-date research and examples from varied K-12 educational and community settings, it offers accessible introductions to key linguistic concepts while centering social and societal considerations throughout. Practical classroom applications are provided, with discussion questions and online resources for further exploration of topics.

Though primarily intended for aspiring and practicing language teachers, this book expands the definition of educators to include families, communities, and school leaders and recognizes their contributions to language and literacy development. It equips educators with the necessary knowledge of languages for effective multilingual and multimodal learning.

"This book powerfully dismantles the myth of monolingualism, weaving together history, theory, and classroom practice. It offers educators a specialized understanding of key approaches to working with multilingual learners, including insightful strategies ranging from a focus on the expression level (e.g., phonetics and phonology) to more socio-political concerns." - Ruth Harman, University of Georgia, USA

"This book celebrates multilingualism and offers a robust discussion of language and learning grounded in the realities of multilingual classrooms. Bringing together systemic functional linguistics, genre theory, and multimodality, among other crucial topics, Schall-Leckrone offers a rare, accessible framework that bridges contemporary research and practice for teachers, administrators, and applied linguistics scholars." - Sabrina F. Sembiante, Florida Atlantic University, USA

"This book is an outstanding resource for a wide range of educators, including teachers, school and district leaders, teacher educators, families, community members, and policymakers. Dr. Schall-Leckrone makes a clear and strong case for why we need to understand education from a multilingual perspective, and offers many helpful examples along the way." - Megan Madigan Peercy, University of Maryland, USA