Multilingual tasks as a springboard for transversal practice: Teachers’ decisions and dilemmas in a functional multilingual learning approach

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dc.contributor.authorFoster, Nell
dc.contributor.authorAuger, Nathalie
dc.contributor.authorVan Avermaet, Piet
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-14T07:47:45Z
dc.date.available2023-06-14T07:47:45Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractFunctional Multilingual Learning (FML) aims to leverage pupils’ full language repertoire in a strategic and transversal way across the curriculum in order to enhance access to conceptual understanding and improve skills in the language of schooling. This linguistic-ethnographic study explores the pedagogical decisions of four teachers in a French–speaking primary school in Brussels, Belgium as they create ‘meaningful multilingual tasks’ for their linguistically diverse classrooms. Findings indicate that tasks serving symbolic and linguistic functions were the easiest for teachers to conceptualise, and that class-level learning objectives often took precedence over individual objectives. Multilingual scaffolding only occurred in classrooms already functioning extensively within a socio-constructivist paradigm and needed to be supported by a free classroom language policy to be the most effective.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFoster, N. et al. (2023). Multilingual tasks as a springboard for transversal practice: Teachers’ decisions and dilemmas in a functional multilingual learning approach. Language and Education, 37(1), 22-38. 10.1080/09500782.2021.1958835en_US
dc.identifier.issn1747-7581
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2021.1958835
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/9076
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectTeaching and Learningen_US
dc.subjectMultilingual learningen_US
dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.subjectTeachersen_US
dc.subjectBelgiumen_US
dc.titleMultilingual tasks as a springboard for transversal practice: Teachers’ decisions and dilemmas in a functional multilingual learning approachen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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