Stichwort: Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung

Teachers' Beliefs and Strategies when Teaching Reading in Multilingual Settings. Case Studies in German, Swedish and Chilean Grade 4 Classrooms

“…Code-switching behavior, 'mixing languages', is often stigmatized and seen as 'bad language' (Garcia and Wei, 2014). Even if multilingualism has another position in education today, it is far from being seen as 'normal', on the contrary, monolingualism is still seen as the norm (Lengyel, 2017). Monolingual approaches are often used in education programs and this "assumes that legitimate practices are only those enacted by monolinguals" (García, 2009).…”

“…It can be found in every society and in different ages and stages of life; it is simply globally apparent. Therefore, a myriad of studies regarding multilingualism have been and are being conducted in different disciplines: social sciences, psychology and education studies (Lengyel, 2017).…”

“…Linguistic diversity is however not a new phenomenon in European classrooms (Gogolin and Krüger-Potratz, 2006), but it has been colored by the nation state formation in the 19 th century, where a linguistic homogenizing policy followed (Lengyel, 2017). Minority languages and dialects were considered divergent, linguistic diversity as something "unnatural" (Krüger-Potratz, 2011), and multilingualism something dangerous and harmful, which should be fought.…”