A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners

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A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners is written by Barbara Hofer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 311110771X (ISBN 10) and 9783111107714 (ISBN 13).

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.