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Inclusion in Education: Challenges for Linguistic Policy and Research

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Language Policy and Language Acquisition Planning

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Educational policy in Europe is deliberately shifting towards a more consistent focus on inclusion, meaning provisions to ensure effective education in mainstream classrooms for all students. A considerable gap exists, however, between the policy and research frameworks of the inclusion movement, on the one hand, and research and policy on language teaching and learning, on the other. This chapter explores the reasons for this, and what engagement with inclusion may imply for teaching practices in schools, for programs of teacher education, and for scholarly thinking and practice in second language acquisition and language policy. It argues that inclusion requires a rethinking of the settings, participants, and questions central to such areas of research.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

    Mark Fettes

  2. Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Fatemeh Mahbod Karamouzian

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  1. Center of Multilingualism in Society, University of Oslo Center of Multilingualism in Society, Blindern, Norway

    Maarja Siiner

  2. Centre for Languages & Literature, Lund University Centre for Languages & Literature, Lund, Sweden

    Francis M. Hult

  3. Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, University of Konstanz Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Konstanz, Germany

    Tanja Kupisch

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Fettes, M., Karamouzian, F.M. (2018). Inclusion in Education: Challenges for Linguistic Policy and Research. In: Siiner, M., Hult, F., Kupisch, T. (eds) Language Policy and Language Acquisition Planning. Language Policy, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75963-0_13

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