TY - BOOK ID - 37279423 TI - Teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms PY - 2002 SN - 1280207779 9786610207770 0306472295 0792370791 PB - Dordrecht ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Mathematics KW - Multilingual persons KW - Study and teaching (Secondary) KW - Education (Secondary) KW - Mathematics. KW - Language and languages. KW - Mathematics Education. KW - Learning & Instruction. KW - Language Education. KW - Teaching and Teacher Education. KW - Mathematics—Study and teaching . KW - Learning. KW - Instruction. KW - Language and education. KW - Teaching. KW - Didactics KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - School teaching KW - Schoolteaching KW - Education KW - Instructional systems KW - Pedagogical content knowledge KW - Training KW - Educational linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Learning process KW - Comprehension KW - Polyglots (Persons) KW - Linguists KW - Math KW - Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:37279423 AB - Increasingly, teachers all over the world are grappling on a daily basis with the fact of multilingual classrooms. In this book, Jill Adler captures three inter-related dilemmas that lie at the heart of teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms. Adler's identification and naming of the dilemma of code-switching, the dilemma of mediation, and the dilemma of transparency, arise from exploring the realities of actual classrooms, and are shaped by a perspective of teaching as a social practice. Adler provides a sharp analysis and strong theoretical grounding for her work, pulling together research related to the relationship between language and mathematics, communicating mathematics, and mathematics in bi-/multilingual settings. In so doing, she offers a direct challenge to dominant research on communication in mathematics classrooms that has `othered' the multilingual setting in its normalisation of the monolingual classroom. The `norm' is a multicultural one. Set in contemporary South Africa - a context of linguistic diversity and rapid change - this book offers a spotlight whose beam is wide enough to illuminate dilemmas at work in all mathematics classrooms. ER -