Increasingly teachers all over the world are grappling on a daily basis withthe fact of multilingual classrooms. In this book Jill Adler captures threeinterrela... » 

Increasingly teachers all over the world are grappling on a daily basis withthe fact of multilingual classrooms. In this book Jill Adler captures threeinterrelated dilemmas that lie at the heart of teaching mathematics inmultilingual classrooms. Adlers identification and naming of the dilemma ofcodeswitching the dilemma of mediation and the dilemma of transparencyarise from exploring the realities of actual classrooms and are shaped by aperspective of teaching as a social practice. Adler provides a sharp analysisand strong theoretical grounding for her work pulling together researchrelated to the relationship between language and mathematics communicatingmathematics and mathematics in bimultilingual settings. In so doing sheoffers a direct challenge to dominant research on communication in mathematicsclassrooms that has othered the multilingual setting in its normalisation ofthe monolingual classroom. The norm is a multicultural one. Set incontemporary South Africa a context of linguistic diversity and rapid change this book offers a spotlight whose beam is wide enough to illuminate dilemmasat work in all mathematics classrooms. «