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Multilingual Practices and Opportunities to Learn

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The chapter will highlight the relationship between multilingual practices and opportunities to learn. It will first consider the importance of how we approach language use and then move to the multilingual practices framework. The framework will be discussed according to the three dimensions—multilingual stance, student engagement, and institutional structures and pedagogies—and their influence on learning opportunities. Spaces for multilingual practices in mainstream schools and how they afford learning for different student profiles will then be considered. Discussion of these spaces will include differentiation, innovation and language hierarchies, or inequities in the distribution of learning opportunities.

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Turner, M. (2019). Multilingual Practices and Opportunities to Learn. In: Multilingualism as a Resource and a Goal. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21591-0_10

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