Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education: Research, Challenges, and Teaching Practices

.This edited book offers a new look at community and heritage languages schools around the world, providing a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of language education and cultural understanding in and beyond school contexts. Covering research and practice, the contributors survey the global landscape of community and heritage language schools and explore new developments in the field to understand the challenges the schools face and discuss the impact they have on their students and surrounding communities. Chapters address key topics including language development, academic achievement, professional development, learner identity and agency, online learning and teaching disruptions. Contributors highlight learners’ voices throughout, with special attention to overlooked minority language communities and Indigenous voices. Through this wealth of thorough and insightful analysis, the contributors of this book position students of community/heritage languages schools as citizens of a plurilingual world who are central to global change. Abounding with original research, innovative ideas and cutting-edge teaching practices, this book is ideal for courses on multilingualism and language and culture.Additional ISBNs9781032299181, 9781003302704, 9781000965858Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education: Research, Challenges, and Teaching Practices 1st Edition and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education are 9781000965872, 1000965872 and the print ISBNs are 9781032287126, 1032287128. Additional ISBNs include 9781032299181, 9781003302704, 9781000965858.