The Multilingual Turn: Implications for SLA, TESOL, and Bilingual Education / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780415534321 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 07/30/2013 Edition description: New Edition Pages: 240 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) Drawing on the latest developments in bilingual and multilingual research, The Multilingual Turn offers a critique of, and alternative to, still-dominant monolingual theories, pedagogies and practices in SLA, TESOL, and bilingual education. Critics of the ‘monolingual bias’ argue that notions such as the idealized native speaker, and related concepts of interlanguage, language competence, and fossilization, have framed these fields inextricably in relation to monolingual speaker norms. In contrast, these critics advocate an approach that emphasizes the multiple competencies of bi/multilingual learners as the basis for successful language teaching and learning. This volume takes a big step forward in re-situating the issue of multilingualism more centrally in applied linguistics and, in so doing, making more per