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Bilingual and bicultural scholar Yeng-Seng Goh offers the first in-depth English language analysis of global Chinese, exploring the spread of Chinese beyond China and its emergence as a global language. Approaching the topic from a Singapore perspective, Goh uses this fascinating language ecosystem, with its unique bilingual language policy, as a case study for Chinese language learning. Offering clear insights into the pedagogy of teaching Chinese as an international language (TCIL), this book covers a range of important topics, such as the use of English in the teaching of Chinese, the teaching of Chinese by non-native teachers, information and communications technology in L2 learning and teaching, and the progressive testing of receptive skills. In doing so, it presents a new, integrative approach to the compilation of Chinese learner's dictionaries, an innovative bilingual hybrid model for training TCIL teachers, and a solid theoretical framework for Masters of Arts programmes in TCIL.

Chinese language --- Bilingualism --- Education, Bilingual --- Communication, International. --- International communication --- World communication --- Communication --- Bilingual education --- Multilingual education --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Sino-Tibetan languages --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Singapore --- Languages. --- Foreign speakers

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This edited collection explores the immense potential of translanguaging in educational settings and highlights teachers and students negotiating language ideologies in their everyday communicative practices. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on translanguaging and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity. The chapters provide rich empirical research and document translanguaging in varied educational contexts, with studies from pre-school to adult education in different, mainly European, countries, where English is not the dominant language. Together they expand our understanding of translanguaging and how it can be applied to a variety of settings. This book will be of interest to students and researchers, especially in education, language education and applied linguistics, as well as to professionals and policymakers.

Education, Bilingual. --- Language transfer (Language learning) --- Language and languages --- Study and teaching (Higher education) --- bilingual education. --- diverse educational contexts. --- diversity in education. --- education in multilingual settings. --- education. --- language ideology. --- multilingual learning. --- multilingual schools . --- multilingual teaching. --- multilingualism. --- pedagogy. --- social justice. --- translanguaging. --- transliteracy.

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This book discusses literacy development in heritage language speakers and presents the results of four different quantitative studies that investigate the transfer of literacy skills in bi- and multilingual language development. The empirical studies focus on different populations of pupils, most of them located in various parts of Switzerland, and emphasise the potential residing in shared or transferred resources between their heritage languages and the languages spoken in the region to which their family has immigrated. The goal of all studies was to gain an understanding of the factors, both linguistic and non-linguistic in nature, that contribute to the development of language skills in both the heritage and school languages. Theoretical assumptions are put to the test via hypothesis testing and the generally shared assumptions on bilingual education are questioned based on the data. Furthermore, methodological problems in the investigation of linguistic interdependence are discussed. This book contributes to the scholarly investigation of potential beneficial effects in academic proficiency across languages in migrant children.

Code switching (Linguistics) --- Code switching (Linguistics). --- Education, Bilingual. --- Heritage language speakers --- Immigrant children --- Interlanguage (Language learning) --- Interlanguage (Language learning). --- Language and languages --- Multilingual education. --- Multilingualism in children. --- Sociolinguistics. --- SLA. --- bilingual education. --- bilingualism. --- biliteracy. --- crosslinguistic influence. --- heritage language learning. --- heritage language maintenance. --- heritage language students. --- heritage language. --- interdependence. --- linguistic transfer. --- literacy development. --- literacy skills. --- literacy. --- multilingual language development. --- multilingualism. --- second language acquisition. --- transfer. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics. --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Children --- Education --- Multilingualism --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Study and teaching --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Language acquisition --- Languages, Mixed --- Child immigrants --- Immigrants --- Heritage language learners --- Heritage speakers --- Persons --- Bilingualism --- Multilingual education --- Language shift --- Switching (Linguistics) --- Diglossia (Linguistics) --- Education. --- Study and teaching. --- Script switching (Linguistics)