1st Edition
Multilingualism as Opportunity An Integrated Perspective on English and Languages Education in Australia
1. Introduction: English, Language(s), and Australian Education
Bill Green and Marianne Turner
Part One
2. Exploring Context and Possibility in Education Through the Understanding and Undoing of Language
Marianne Turner
3. On Language and Hospitality: A Practice-Ontological Perspective
Alex Kostogriz
4. English in Australia – A Multilingual Subject?
Bill Green
5. Home Languages are Everyone’s Business
Andrea C. Schalley & Susana A. Eisenchlas
Part Two
6. Subject English, Multilingualism and Critical Cultural Studies: Relanguaging English Education in Australia towards Postcolonial Possibility
Tanya Davies
7. Teaching Literature in the Contact Zone: Knowledge, Language and Meaning-Making in Plurilingual Classrooms
Fleur Diamond
8. From EAL Students to Multilingual Learners: Privileging Existing Language Knowledge in Australian Classrooms
Khanh-Linh Tran-Dang, Minh Hue Nguyen, Marianne Turner & Thi Kim Anh Dang
9. Rethinking Digital Multimodal Composing by Embracing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in the Classroom
Ekaterina Tour & Melissa Barnes
Part Three
10. ‘Teachers as Co-Learners’ of Languages: Recurricularising Language and Literacy Learning as a Multilingual and Collaborative Endeavour
Michiko Weinmann, Sarah Ohi, Thu Ha Bui, Jack K. Bennett, Andrew Skourdoumbis
11. Bringing Reciprocal Multilingual Awareness to Australian Language(s) Education
Mei French, Joel Windle & Daniel Bleby
12. Teaching about Honeybees: Embracing Indigenous Language, Culture, and Content through ‘On Country Learning’
Rhonda Oliver, Leanne Eades & Carly Steele
13. Multilingualism and Intercultural Development: Transformative Identity within Languages Curriculum
Ruth Fielding
14. Conclusion: Multilingualism as Opportunity
Marianne Turner & Bill Green
Biography
Marianne Turner is an Associate Professor in the Education Faculty at Monash University. She researches multilingualism and equity in education, with a focus on situated approaches to the leveraging of students’ linguistic and cultural resources in the classroom, and the integration of language(s) and content more generally.
Bill Green is Emeritus Professor of Education at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst Campus, New South Wales. He has longstanding research interests in literacy studies and curriculum inquiry, with a particular focus on English curriculum history and theory, and has published widely in these areas.
“How and why language matters in and for (Australian) education – this book’s organising question – makes its publication timely and profoundly important, especially for a colonial-settler, migration-destination country such as Australia. The topics are comprehensive and essential reading for anyone interested in multilingualism and the opportunities it presents for schooling and education.”
Margaret Kettle, Professor, Central Queensland University, Australia
