Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners

<p><strong>A ground-breaking and topical commentary from a leading thinker within the field of multilingual education</strong>.<br /> <br /> Over the past 40 years Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility of critiques they have generated using the criteria of empirical adequacy logical coherence and consequential validity. <br /> <br /> These criteria of theoretical legitimacy are also applied to the evaluation of two different versions of translanguaging theory - Unitary Translanguaging Theory and Crosslinguistic Translanguaging Theory - in a way that significantly clarifies this controversial concept. </p>