A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners: Early Multi-Competence in South Tyrol

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This book presents a new extended framework for the study of early multicompetence. It proposes a concept of multilingual competences as a valuable educational target, and a view of the multilingual learner as a competent language user. The thematic focus is on multilingual skill development in primary schoolers in the trilingual province of South Tyrol, northern Italy. A wide range of topics pertaining to multicompetence building and the special affordances of multilingual pedagogy are explored. Key concepts like language proficiency, native-speakerism, or monolingual classroom bias are subjected to critical analysis. Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Preface Structure of the book Contents Introduction: Terminological and conceptual clarifications Part I Chapter 1. Multilingual is as multilingual does Chapter 2. Multilingualism: Problem, right or resource? Chapter 3. Monolingual native speaker vs multilingual norms Chapter 4. Rehabilitating Babel – Cultivating a multilingual learning ecology Chapter 5. Widening perspectives: Applying CDS Thinking to multilingual competence building Chapter 6. The impact of complex factor bundles on the multilingual system Part II Chapter 7. The study Chapter 8. Results Chapter 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index