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Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility of critiques they have generated, using the criteria of empirical adequacy, logical coherence, and consequential validity. These criteria of theoretical legitimacy are also applied ...

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Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts 2021, Multilingual Matters, Bristol

ISBN-13: 9781800413573

Paperback

Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts 2021, Multilingual Matters, Bristol

ISBN-13: 9781800413580

Hardcover