Plurilingual Perspectives Language Teacher Education and Language Teaching in Oceania

List of Contributors

Foreword: Plurilingual perspectives: Language teacher education and language teaching in Oceania. A préambule of gratitude. (Danièle Moore)           

Introduction: Plurilingual perspectives in Oceania (Zehra Gabillon)

Part 1: Socio-historical and socio-political perspectives in language teaching and teacher education

1. Language teaching tensions in Nauru: Considerations for curriculum reform (Greg Burnett, Wili Suluma & Susan Bennett)
2. He Rā ki Tua – Normalising te reo Māori for the future (Arianna Berardi-Wiltshire, María Celina Bortolotto & Hone Waengarangi Morris)
3. From Policy to Practice: The management of languages in post-colonial Samoan classrooms (Grace Manuleleua & Yvette Slaughter)

Part 2: Sustainable initial teacher education and ongoing teacher development

1. Languages teacher education in Australia: Pathways, programming challenges, and prospects for a plurilingual future (Trent Newman, Yvette Slaughter, Andrea Truckenbrodt, Annamaria Paolino & Renata Aliani)
2. Exploring intercultural understanding of pre-service teachers in multilingual classrooms beyond the Australian curriculum: A Praxis Inquiry Model in action (Nataša Ciabatti & Oksana Razoumova)
3. Enacting plurilingual professional learning in Pacific Bilingual and Immersion Education in Aotearoa New Zealand (Rae Si’ilata, Meg Jacobs, Martha Aseta, Kyla Hansell, Avikaila Tilialo, Grace Ormsby-Abazu, Malo Sepuloni, Maliana Taufalele & Lineni Paea)

Part 3: Culturally and ecologically responsive language teaching and teacher education

1. Promoting plurilingual and pluricultural pedagogy of French through short-term mobility programs in the Pacific region (Diane Saint-Léger & Kerry Mullan)
2. Building the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language educatior workforce – What is needed? (Carolyn Barker, Ella Woods, Nikki Moodie & Jillian Bowie)

Part 4: Teachers’ voices and identity

1. Examining plurilingual identities of pre-service language teachers – A qualitative study of identity, plurilingualism and interculturality (Ruth Fielding & Gary Bonar)
2. French Polynesian pre-service teachers’ linguistic repertoires and complex language and cultural identity issues (Zehra Gabillon & Yvette Slaughter)
3. A Collective Autoethnography of Language Educators in Oceania (Karine Frogier Leocadie & Florence Boulard)

Concluding comments

1. Plurilingualism thought from Oceania (Yvette Slaughter, Zehra Gabillon & Florence Boulard)

Index

Biography

Zehra Gabillon is Associate Professor of English Studies at the University of French Polynesia and has published widely on language teaching in plurilingual contexts.

Yvette Slaughter is Professor, Languages and Literacies Education at the University of Melbourne. Her research seeks to problematise and challenge monolingual-centric assumptions that underpin curriculum, pedagogy and assessment in education, working towards pedagogical and curriculum innovations that position students’ linguistic and cultural resources as an asset for learning.

Florence Boulard is Associate Professor in the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University, Australia, where she works as Director of the Academy of Modern Languages. Her research and teaching interests focus on Pacific-mindedness.