Beyond Perfection The Beauty of Imperfect Language Learning : Rethinking Language Learning, Teaching, and Policy for Educational Change
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.09.2026
Herausgeber
Kevin Wong + weitereVerlag
CalecSeitenzahl
478
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/2,8 cm
Gewicht
770 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-63607-575-4
What would schools, classrooms, and language policies look like if they were designed for the multilingual lives students and teachers actually live? Beyond Perfection: The Beauty of Imperfect Language Learning - Volume 2 turns from families and personal histories to classrooms, teacher education, institutions, and policy debates. Bringing together research, autoethnographies, case studies, and critical reflections, this volume examines how educators, students, and communities navigate multilingual realities in educational contexts around the world. The contributors challenge dominant myths of language education: the ideal native speaker, the balanced bilingual, the separation of languages in school, and the belief that fluency must follow a single standardized path. In their place, they highlight translanguaging, linguistic agency, student voice, teacher vulnerability, community knowledge, and the everyday strategies multilingual learners use to communicate, learn, and belong. Across contexts ranging from the Gulf region and Central Asia to bilingual classrooms, refugee education, adult literacy, teacher preparation, and multilingual communities, the chapters show that "imperfect" multilingualism is not a deficit to be corrected. It is a source of knowledge, care, innovation, and transformation. This volume invites educators, researchers, and policymakers to rethink multilingual education beyond narrow measures of correctness and mastery. It calls for schools and institutions that recognize linguistic diversity not as a problem, but as a foundation for more just, inclusive, and human-centered educational change. An essential resource for educators, policymakers, researchers, and teacher educators working to build more inclusive classrooms, responsive institutions, and human-centered language policies.
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