Minority Languages and Multilingual Education: Bridging the Local and the Global

This book presents research on the situation minority language schoolchildren face when they need to learn languages of international communication, in particular English. The book takes minority languages as a starting point and it bridges local and global perspectives in the analysis of multilingual education contexts. It examines the interaction of minority languages and cultures, majority languages and lingua franca—s in a variety of settings across different regions and countries on al...