Multilingual Teaching - by Roma Chumak-Horbatsch (Paperback)

About the Book

This book lays out a radical new approach for teaching in multilingual classrooms: to include everyone, including those who already speak the school language, in multilingual pedagogy. The author proposes Linguistically Appropriate Practice Plus, a new resource to help teachers support the language interests of school language speakers.

Book Synopsis

This book lays out a radical new approach for teaching in multilingual classrooms: to include everyone, including those who already speak the school language, in multilingual pedagogy. The author proposes Linguistically Appropriate Practice Plus, a new resource to help teachers support the language interests of school language speakers.

Review Quotes

In this book, Roma Chumak-Horbatsch draws attention to language itself and its role as a human rights issue. I particularly appreciated how the holistic view of learning is presented through several factors, such as the emphasis on language justice and the classroom as a space for language learning. This book will certainly help teachers better understand the complex world of multilingual learners and speakers.

In this highly accessible and engaging book, Roma Chumak-Horbatsch extends the scope of Linguistically Appropriate Practice to include school language speakers. Supported by vivid case studies and engaging language activities, the book convincingly demonstrates how an instructional focus on language awareness and exploration generates intellectual, linguistic, and personal power for students and teachers alike.

About the Author

Roma Chumak-Horbatsch has recently retired from Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, where her teaching and research focused on language learning, bilingualism and multilingual pedagogy. She continues to work with teachers to support multilingual teaching that is open to all learners. She is the author of Using Linguistically Appropriate Practice: A Guide for Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms (2019, Multilingual Matters).