Description
While standard language ideology (SLI) is harmful in its exclusion of minorities through expression of language and race, translingualism provides a positive scaffolding characterized by the disposition of openness. Translingualism suggests that each utterance creates meaning and is a direct rebellion against SLI. It privileges unprivileged varieties of English over so-called Standard English. In order to combat SLI, scholars have emphasized the need for congenial multicultural spaces where students can use their cultural and linguistic resources as an asset and which supports the idea of students learning from each other through their diversity.
Teaching Practices and Language Ideologies for Multilingual Classrooms is an essential scholarly publication that examines the educational necessities for diverse student populations and multilingual students and provides rich teaching resources for guiding the creation of classroom environments that engage multilingual students and support their writing and problem-solving skills. Featuring a range of topics such as ethics, code-switching, and language education, this book is ideal for teachers, instructional designers, academicians, sociologists, administrators, language professionals, researchers, and students.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Ashok Bhusal (Ed.)
Ashok Bhusal has a solid background in the theories and pedagogies of first year composition. He completed his PhD in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at El Paso. He completed his master’s degree in English from Nepal, Tribhuvan University; he earned his second master’s degree in English with a concentration in Rhetoric/Composition/Professional Writing from Eastern Illinois University, USA. His research interests include multimodal composition, language ideology, multilingualism, and standard language ideology. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has been teaching mainstream composition at the university level to diverse populations for about a decade in the United States.