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In this chapter, we discuss the contexts in which the offer of multilingual education is enabled, encouraged, or prevented. We start with defining and distinguishing monolingual approaches to education from multilingual ones and learn about the potential effects of monolingual mainstream education on multilingual speakers. We then turn to discussing advantages and disadvantages of weak multilingual versus strong multilingual approaches, offer examples of their use and effects, and present two popular multilingual teaching methods through which they could be implemented, namely Content and Language Integrated Learning and translanguaging. Finally, we turn to languages in higher education and see that the multilingual tendency that had developed in education in recent years is strongly impacted by the use of monolingual English approaches.

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    Remember that the general monolingual approach to education includes foreign-language classes, such as for example French or Spanish classes, as part of the curriculum.

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    Manuela Vida-Mannl, Patricia Ronan & Sarah Buschfeld

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Vida-Mannl, M., Ronan, P., Buschfeld, S. (2023). Multilingual Education and Teaching. In: Multilingualism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28405-2_8

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