Bilingual Education in a Challenging World: From Policy to Practice
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Language and Literacy Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2025) | Viewed by 18783
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, the spread of bi/multilingualism and bi/multilingual education has become a significant phenomenon worldwide. Although the ideas hidden behind the promotion of bi/multilingual education vary from country to country, related policies and educational practices have increased substantially. The EU, Canada, and Singapore are frequently mentioned examples of countries providing bilingual education. In addition, there are bottom-up practices of bilingual schools in Australia and a top-down policy of initiating bilingual education in all levels of schooling in Taiwan. Under this circumstance, learning from other countries is common so that policy-borrowing or policy transfer occurs often. Meanwhile, due to different social and cultural contexts, diverse practices in bilingual education can be expected.
In this Special Issue, original research articles related to bi/multilingual education are welcome. The topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Policy analysis of bi/multilingual education.
- Development of bi/multilingual education in a region or in a country.
- Implementation of bi/multilingual education at the central government or local authority level.
- Practices of bi/multilingual education in pre-university education.
- Practices of bi/multilingual education in higher education.
- Pedagogy of bi/multilingual education.
- Assessment or evaluation of bi/multilingual teaching.
- Bi/multilingual teacher training.
- Professional development of bi/multilingual teachers.
- Teaching material of bi/multilingual teachers.
- Technology-enhanced bi/multilingual teaching.
- Attitudes of children, adolescents, and adults to bi/multilingual education.
- Comparative study of bi/multilingual education.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Tzu-Bin Lin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bilingual education
- multilingual education
- language policy
- bi/multilingual instruction
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