Teaching through Basque Achievement and Challenges

by Cenoz, Jasone

• ISBN13: 9781847690708
• ISBN10: 184769070X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-02
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This volume focuses on research in education in the Basque Country where Basque, a minority language, is used as the language of instruction. It focuses on academic and linguistic results and the challenges the Basque educational system is currently facing. This volume can be useful for other bilingual and multilingual contexts involving different language combinations.

Author Biography

Jasone Cenoz is professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country. Her research focuses on bilingualism and multilingualism in educational settings. She is the editor (in collaboration with Ulrike Jessner) of â??The International Journal of Multilingualismâ?? and â??Aila Reviewâ??. She is publications coordinator of AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics) and she is the vice-president of IAM (International Association of Multilingualism). She has published widely on bilingualism and multilingualism and her most recent volume is â??Towards Multilingual Education: Basque Educational Research in International Perspectiveâ?? which will be published by Multilingual Matters.

Table of Contents

Learning through the minority : an introduction to the use of Basque in education in the Basque Country	p. 1
Bilingual education in the Basque Autonomous Community : achievements and challenges	p. 5
Bilingual education in Navarre : achievements and challenges	p. 21
Assessment of bilingual education in the Basque Country	p. 39
A longitudinal study of academic achievement in Spanish : the effect of linguistic models	p. 48
Measuring student language use in the school context	p. 59
Basque, Spanish and immigrant minority languages in Basque schools	p. 69
Promoting the minority language through integrated plurilingual language planning : the case of the Ikastolas	p. 85
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