Multilingual Turn

<p>Drawing on the latest developments in bilingual and multilingual research <em>The Multilingual Turn</em> 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/multilingual learners as the basis for successful language teaching and learning. </p><p>This volume takes a big step forward in re-situating the issue of multilingualism more centrally in applied linguistics and in so doing making more permeable its key sub-disciplinary boundaries – particularly those between SLA TESOL and bilingual education. It addresses this issue head on bringing together key international scholars in SLA TESOL and bilingual education to explore from cutting-edge interdisciplinary perspectives what a more critical multilingual perspective might mean for theory pedagogy and practice in each of these fields. <br> </p>