How to utilise students’ cultural and linguistic experiences to promote language learning: Looking beyond the school

This article will first give an overview of multicultural, multilingual Britain and place it within the context of community literacy. It will then discuss education reforms and policies that have aimed to place multicultural and multiple literacy at their centre before considering theoretical basis...

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Main Author: Tözün Issa
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2010-02-01
Series:Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/jtl3/article/view/33
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spelling doaj-df9d72b27a264351973867c3a101f4062021-05-04T16:12:41ZcatUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaBellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature2013-61962010-02-0111142910.5565/rev/jtl3.3364How to utilise students’ cultural and linguistic experiences to promote language learning: Looking beyond the schoolTözün IssaThis article will first give an overview of multicultural, multilingual Britain and place it within the context of community literacy. It will then discuss education reforms and policies that have aimed to place multicultural and multiple literacy at their centre before considering theoretical basis for current understanding of additional language learning in the UK. Then the article describes a project, based on ethnographic case studies of an early years centre and its reception classes. Preliminary results and conclusions are discussed.https://revistes.uab.cat/jtl3/article/view/33community literacy, additional language learning, reception classes
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How to utilise students’ cultural and linguistic experiences to promote language learning: Looking beyond the school
Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature
community literacy, additional language learning, reception classes
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title How to utilise students’ cultural and linguistic experiences to promote language learning: Looking beyond the school
title_short How to utilise students’ cultural and linguistic experiences to promote language learning: Looking beyond the school
title_full How to utilise students’ cultural and linguistic experiences to promote language learning: Looking beyond the school
title_fullStr How to utilise students’ cultural and linguistic experiences to promote language learning: Looking beyond the school
title_full_unstemmed How to utilise students’ cultural and linguistic experiences to promote language learning: Looking beyond the school
title_sort how to utilise students’ cultural and linguistic experiences to promote language learning: looking beyond the school
publisher Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
series Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature
issn 2013-6196
publishDate 2010-02-01
description This article will first give an overview of multicultural, multilingual Britain and place it within the context of community literacy. It will then discuss education reforms and policies that have aimed to place multicultural and multiple literacy at their centre before considering theoretical basis for current understanding of additional language learning in the UK. Then the article describes a project, based on ethnographic case studies of an early years centre and its reception classes. Preliminary results and conclusions are discussed.
topic community literacy, additional language learning, reception classes
url https://revistes.uab.cat/jtl3/article/view/33
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