Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms

• Main Author: Adler, Jill (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Mathematics Education Library ; 26
• Subjects: Education.; Language and education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Language Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

Increasingly, teachers all over the world are grappling on a daily basis with the fact of multilingual classrooms. In this book, Jill Adler captures three inter-related dilemmas that lie at the heart of teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms. Adler's identification and naming of the di...

Table of Contents:

• The Elusive Dynamics of Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms
• Complexity and Diversity: The Language and Mathematics Education Terrain in South Africa
• Accessing Teachers’ Tacit and Articulated Knowledge
• Dilemmas in Teaching: A Prelude and Frame
• Teachers Talking About Teaching: The Emergence of Dilemmas
• Language(S) As Resource and the Dilemma of Code-Switching
• Dilemmas of Mediation in a Multilingual Classroom: Spotlighting Mathematical Communicative Competence
• The Dilema of Transparency: Language Visibility in the Multilingual Classroom
• Central Dilemmas as Curriculum and Research Agenda.