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This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children’s needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children’s actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages that students need for their educational and professional success. It argues that, as more and more children grow up multilingually in our globalised world, there is a need for more nuanced multilingual solutions in language-in-education policies. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education – rather than mother tongue education – is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today’s world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.

Multilingualism in children. --- Multilingual education. --- Children --- Language development in children --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Language and languages --- Education --- Multilingualism --- Language. --- Vocabulary --- educational equity. --- flexible multilingualism. --- globalisation. --- language and education. --- language policy. --- medium of instruction. --- multilingual children.

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In this volume a range of authors from different international contexts argue that the notion of communicative competence in English, hitherto largely referenced to metropolitan native-speaker norms, has to be expanded to take account of diverse contexts of use for a variety of purposes. It also discusses the popular belief that language and literacy should simply be regarded as a technical 'skill' which confers universal benefits and that it should be replaced with a social practice view that recognises situated variations and diversity. This volume, we believe, provides a reference point for extended research and practice in these areas that will be of interest to wide range of people engaged in language and literacy education.

English language --- Second language acquisition. --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- EFL (Language study) --- English as a foreign language --- English as a second language --- English to speakers of other languages --- ESL (Language study) --- ESOL (Language study) --- Teaching English as a second language --- TEFL (Language study) --- TESL (Language study) --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Foreign students --- Didactics of English --- Didactics of higher education --- Germanic languages --- English. --- communicative competence. --- language and education. --- language and literacy. --- language policy. --- linguistic diversity. --- medium of instruction.