Lesser-Taught Languages in Multilingual Contexts
Focus on Language Variation, Pedagogy, and Policy
1st Edition
Published on 3. May 2026
Book
Hardback
274 pages
978-1-032-89638-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection offers a comprehensive look at lesser-taught languages (LTLs) in multilingual education, seeking to broaden existing notions of minority languages and elucidate key issues and challenges specific to them in educational settings.
The volume is organized around different sections, structural characteristics, and the implications for teaching, methodological considerations, issues around language and identity, and language policy and planning. Case studies from a range of settings are considered, including formal and informal educational contexts, community literacy activities, and out-of-school language classes. In so doing, the book seeks both to bring a critical perspective at the historical and epistemological foundations underpinning existing research and innovative insights into important connected themes for future study.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, language education, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and language policy.
The volume is organized around different sections, structural characteristics, and the implications for teaching, methodological considerations, issues around language and identity, and language policy and planning. Case studies from a range of settings are considered, including formal and informal educational contexts, community literacy activities, and out-of-school language classes. In so doing, the book seeks both to bring a critical perspective at the historical and epistemological foundations underpinning existing research and innovative insights into important connected themes for future study.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, language education, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and language policy.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
13 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 10 s/w Zeichnungen, 19 s/w Tabellen, 23 s/w Abbildungen
19 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
553 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-89638-0 (9781032896380)
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Gilles Forlot | Seraphin Kamdem
Lesser-Taught Languages in Multilingual Contexts
Focus on Language Variation, Pedagogy, and Policy
E-Book
04/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Gilles Forlot | Seraphin Kamdem
Lesser-Taught Languages in Multilingual Contexts
Focus on Language Variation, Pedagogy, and Policy
E-Book
04/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Gilles Forlot is a full professor of sociolinguistics and language education at Inalco University, in Paris, France.
Seraphin Kamdem is currently a research associate in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics as well as at the Centre of African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Seraphin Kamdem is currently a research associate in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics as well as at the Centre of African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Content
Introduction: Framing Lesser-Taught Languages in Contemporary Multilingual Contexts Seraphin Kamdem & Gilles Forlot, PART 1: Variation, CHAPTER 1: Minority language instructors as agents of standardization: Confronting variation during the introduction of Picard in schools Jennifer Cox, CHAPTER 2: Teaching for Variation in a Sacred Language: Beyond Pluricentricity in Lakota/Dakota Language Revitalization Anke Al-Bataineh, CHAPTER 3: The place of variation in Maya as a second language classes. A comparative analysis between Merida (Mexico) and Paris (France) Margarita Valdovinos, PART 2. Learning & teaching, CHAPTER 4: Analysing secondary students' note-taking in Basque: Implications for immersion education Roberto Arias-Hermoso, Eneritz Garro Larranaga, Ainara Imaz Agirre, CHAPTER 5: Language Ideologies and Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Reading Education in Philippine Classrooms Jackson Orlanda & Portia Padilla, CHAPTER 6: Longitudinal Relationship Between Vocabulary and Word Reading Fluency in Multilingual Kapampangan-Filipino-English Speakers Portia Padilla & Alexandra Gottardo, PART 3. Language and educational policies, CHAPTER 7: The teaching of M??d??mb??, Nda'nda' and Yemba in secondary schools of the West region of Cameroon: Assessing the challenges and issues faced in teaching lesser-taught languages Hugues Carlos Fotso Gueche, CHAPTER 8: Creating equitable hybrid interaction spaces to revive Okpella, a Nigerian language Abdulmalik Yusuf Ofemile, CHAPTER 9: Nigeria's Indigenous Languages and the National Policy on Education: The case of Efik in Primary Schools in Calabar Metropolis Eyo Mensah & Uchenna Ajake, CHAPTER 10: Spanish as a Lesser-Taught Language in Los Angeles: Family Socialization, Educational Discontinuity, and Bilingual Agency in a Contact Zone Eric Alvarez, Index