Bringing together the voices of a diverse group of scholars and language professionals, this edited collection, concerned with the cultivation of plurilingualism in multilingual educational settings, builds on the theory and practice of linguistic and cultural mediation both as curricular content and social practice.
The chapters view mediation as an important aspect of communication which involves dynamic, purposeful interactivity, implicating social agents in the negotiation and construction of socially situated meanings across different languages and within the same language. Theoretically informed chapters present views on mediation as well as contributors’ research and project outcomes in educational interventions. They also describe how mediation has been incorporated in educational practices and how it materialises in social contexts. Ultimately, this book makes the case for why mediation constitutes a key competence to be developed for active global and local citizenry in today’s societies where there is an increased rate of knowledge acquisition and exchange.
Presenting research from classrooms and other multilingual environments, this book offers concrete suggestions for the development of language users/learners’ ability to mediate within and across languages. It will appeal to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of language and education, education policy and politics, bilingualism and plurilingualism more generally. Curriculum designers may also find the volume of use.
Edited by:
Bessie Dendrinos
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 670g
ISBN: 9780367469405
ISBN 10: 0367469405
Series: Routledge Research in Language Education
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 04 June 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
PREFACE The editor CHAPTER 1: Introduction and critical review the key concepts in this volume: mediation and plurilingualism, Bessie Dendrinos CHAPTER 2: Mediation for plurilingual competence: synergies and implications, Enrica Piccardo CHAPTER 3: Developing an action-oriented perspective on mediation: The new CEFRCV descriptors, Brian North CHAPTER 4: Developing Mediation Skills at University Language Centres: How meaningful tasks make language learning relevant to the learner, Johan Fischer CHAPTER 5: Mediation as a test format in German high-stakes school-leaving exams, Elisabeth Kolb CHAPTER 6: Conceptualisation and operationalisation of linguistic mediation as a testing construct: A case study, Bessie Dendrinos & Evdokia Karavas CHAPTER 7: Mediation-in-interaction in computer-enhanced non-formal contexts for learning English, Dolors Masats, Emilee Moore & Almudena Herrera CHAPTER 8: Cross-Linguistic Mediation and Linguistic Hybridity, Maria Stathopoulou CHAPTER 9: Translation and Mediation: From Theoretical Models to Self[1]Awareness and Pedagogy, Loredana Polezzi CHAPTER 10: Mediated interactions between teachers and immigrant parents, Claudio Baraldi CHAPTER 11: Bi-/multilingual youths’ mediation practices in daily life. Lessons to be learned, Elvira Hadzič CHAPTER 12: Mediation as a means of negotiating difference in a multilingual community: An educational intervention project, Thalia Dragona
Bessie Dendrinos is Professor Emerita at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and President of the European Civil Society Platform for Multilingualism (ECSPM).
