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Different Educational Approaches to Bi- or Multilingualism and Their Effect on Language Attitudes

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The impact of globalisation, the ever increasing flows of people, the burgeoning desire to maintain local languages and the spread of English as a global lingua franca have led to a worldwide trend in which multilingualism is becoming the norm, not the exception. Although multilingualism should be an asset (due to its cognitive, educational, social and economic positive effects) rather than an onerous burden, this is not always the case, as the monolingual mindset sometimes takes over and ignores the potential benefits of multilingual language policies. In this chapter the concept of multilingualism is analysed, as well as the different types of bi- or multilingual education that have been implemented in different parts of the world, but paying special heed to those contexts in which the local language coexists with the national and the international language (mainly English). The first part of the chapter also deals with the current terminological mess concerning bi- or multilingual programmes that undoubtedly needs to be clarified, as terminological ambiguity may hamper the coherent design and implementation of such programmes. The second part of the chapter focuses on the effects of different multilingual programmes on language attitudes and how they may affect the spread of multilingual education models and, consequently, of multilingualism.

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This chapter is part of the following research projects: FFI2012-34214 (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) and IT311-10 (Department of Education, University and Research of the Basque Government).

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Lasagabaster, D. (2015). Different Educational Approaches to Bi- or Multilingualism and Their Effect on Language Attitudes. In: Juan-Garau, M., Salazar-Noguera, J. (eds) Content-based Language Learning in Multilingual Educational Environments. Educational Linguistics, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11496-5_2

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