Reviving Catalan at School Challenges and Instructional Approaches

by Arnau, Joaquim

• ISBN13: 9781783090242
• ISBN10: 1783090243
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-09-05
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This book presents a comprehensive picture of languages and schools in Catalan-speaking countries, making much of the information available in English for the first time. The chapters examine multiple aspects of the language situation in these countries, including: the recovery of Catalan in schools; the position and status of the majority languages (English and Spanish); language-in-education policies in a multilingual, multicultural context; the possibility of multilingual competence; and the successes and failures of instructional processes.

Author Biography

Joaquim Arnau is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona. He has published widely on bilingual education and second language learning in Catalan.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Joaquim Arnau

Chapter 1 - Joaquim Arnau and Francesc Xavier Vila: Language-in-education Policies in the Catalan Language Area

Chapter 2 - Àngel Huguet, Jose-Luis Navarro, Silvia-Maria Chireac and Clara Sansó: The Acquisition of Catalan by Migrant Children. The Effect of Length of Stay and Family Language

Chapter 3 - Mireia Trenchs-Parera and Adriana Patiño-Santos: Language Attitudes of Latin American Newcomers in Three Secondary School Reception Classes in Catalonia

Chapter 4 - Núria Castells, Isabel Solé, Cristina Luna, Eva Lordán, Esther Nadal, Mariana Miras and Sandra Espino: Training a Primary Education Teacher to Teach Expository Text Comprehension Strategies

Chapter 5 - Joaquim Arnau, Haridian M. de Aysa and Sonia Jarque: Teacher Training in Literacy Instruction and Academic Achievement in a Multilingual Classroom

Chapter 6 - Aneska Ortega, Júlia Coromina and Ana Teberosky: Production of Texts with Multimodal Resources by Two Groups of Primary Education Students

Chapter 7 - Oriol Guasch Boyé: Interlinguistic Reflection on Teaching and Learning Languages

Chapter 8 - Cristina Escobar Urmeneta and Natalia Evnitskaya: Affording Students Opportunities for the Integrated Learning of Content and Language: A Contrastive Study on Classroom Interactional Strategies Deployed by Two CLIL Teachers

Chapter 9 - Rosa Maria Ramírez & Teresa Serra: Integrated Languages Project