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Mise en Écho des Perspectives on Plurilingual Competence and Pluralistic Pedagogies: A Conversation with Danièle Moore

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Plurilingualism does not describe separate competences in fixed and labelled languages, but views languages as “mobile resources” within an integrated repertoire that can include translingual practice. Plurilingualism has been identified in numerous recommendations as a guiding directive for language education policies in Europe, in Canada and other places across the world. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, and the Framework of Reference for Pluralistic Approaches to languages and cultures propose explicit referential levels and descriptors to identify and develop competences and resources across the curriculum, based on the recognition that strategic skills combine knowledge in several and across languages, and that the multilingual knowledges and literacy practices learners bring into the classroom are learning resources. Based on ongoing conversations with Dr. Danièle Moore, this chapter presents a dialogue which aims to give some historical background to the theorization of plurilingualism and plurilingual competence and the various ways these concepts relate to others in the field and contributed to challenge naturalized linguistic boundaries and reframe the education of language-minoritized learners. The chapter further discusses how conceptualizations of plurilingualism relate to understandings of translanguaging.

Keywords

  • Plurilingualism
  • Linguistic repertoire
  • Plurilingual and pluricultural competence
  • Bilingual education
  • Translingual practice
  • CEFR
  • Multilingualism
  • Plurilingual pedagogy
  • Intercultural competence

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  1. Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Danièle Moore

  2. EA 2288 (DILTEC), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle -, Paris 3, France

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  3. School of Education, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

    Sunny Man Chu Lau

  4. Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics,, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Saskia Van Viegen

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Moore, D., Lau, S.M.C., Van Viegen, S. (2020). Mise en Écho des Perspectives on Plurilingual Competence and Pluralistic Pedagogies: A Conversation with Danièle Moore. In: Lau, S., Van Viegen, S. (eds) Plurilingual Pedagogies. Educational Linguistics, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36983-5_2

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