Multilingual Norms

Multilinguals are not multiple monolinguals. Yet multilingual assessment proceeds through monolingual norms,
as if fair conclusions were possible in the absence of fair comparison. In addition, multilingualism concerns what people do with language, not what languages do to people. Yet research focus remains on multilinguals' languages, as if languages existed despite their users. This book redresses these paradoxes. Multilingual scholars, teachers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631902794
• ISBN13: 9783631902790
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"