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Lesser-Taught Languages in Multilingual Contexts: Focus on Language Variation, Pedagogy, and Policy book cover

1st Edition

Lesser-Taught Languages in Multilingual Contexts Focus on Language Variation, Pedagogy, and Policy

Edited By Gilles Forlot, Seraphin Kamdem Copyright 2026
286 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: Framing Lesser-Taught Languages in Contemporary Multilingual Contexts

SERAPHIN KAMDEM AND GILLES FORLOT

PART I: Variation

1 Minority Language Instructors as Agents of Standardization: Confronting Variation during the Introduction of Picard in Schools

JENNIFER COX

2 Teaching for Variation in a Sacred Language: Beyond Pluricentricity in Dakota/Lakota Language Revitalization

ANKE AL-BATAINEH

3 The Place of Variation in Maya as a Second Language Classes: A Comparative Analysis between Merida (Mexico) and Paris (France)

MARGARITA VALDOVINOS

PART II: Learning & Teaching

4 Analysing Secondary Students’ Note-Taking in Basque: Implications for Immersion Education

ROBERTO ARIAS-HERMOSO, ENERITZ GARRO LARRAÑAGA, AND AINARA IMAZ AGIRRE

5 Language Ideologies and Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Reading Education in Philippine Classrooms

JACKSON G. ORLANDA AND PORTIA P. PADILLA

6 Longitudinal Relationship between Vocabulary and Word Reading Fluency in Multilingual Kapampangan-Filipino-English Speakers

PORTIA PADILLA AND ALEXANDRA GOTTARDO

PART III: Language and Educational Policies

7 The Teaching of Mə̀dʉ̂mbɑ̀, 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 GUECHE FOTSO

8 Creating Equitable Hybrid Interaction Spaces to Revive Okpella, a Nigerian Language

ABDULMALIK YUSUF OFEMILE

9 Nigeria’s Indigenous Languages and the National Policy on Education: The Case of Efik in Primary Schools in Calabar Metropolis

EYO MENSAH AND UCHENNA AJAKE

10 Spanish as a Lesser-Taught Language in Los Angeles: Family Socialization, Educational Discontinuity, and Bilingual Agency in a Contact Zone

ERIC ALVAREZ

Biography

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.

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