Plurilingual literacy practices at school and in teacher education

This book offers a variety of theoretical and empirical foundations regarding the development of plurilingual literacy practices in school contexts around Europe. It presents theoretical standpoints and empirical suggestions both for the classroom and for teacher education programs.c

Autorentext

Christian Helmchen studied English, Spanish and pedagogy. He worked as a lecturer for German as a foreign language at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México before becoming a lecturer and research assistant in the Department of Education at the University of Hamburg (Germany). Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer studied French and Portuguese Teacher Education at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). She is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Hamburg (Germany).

Inhalt

Development of plurilingual literacy practices at primary school Multilingualism and plurilingualism at school Reading in multilingual and multimodal environments Identity and teacher education Plurilingual competence Teacher education for plurilingualism and interculturalism at school Pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures