· 2013
The Multilingual Turn
- 471citations
- 2013year
Short summary
The Multilingual Turn critiques dominant monolingual theories in SLA, TESOL, and bilingual education, advocating for approaches that recognize multilingual competencies.
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Key points
- Critiques the 'monolingual bias' in language education fields.
- Identifies idealized native speaker, interlanguage, and fossilization as problematic concepts.
- Advocates for a shift towards recognizing and valuing multilingual competencies.
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Abstract
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
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Field: Linguistics and Language
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