Description:
"Mosaic of Tongues" explores multilingual education in Arabic-speaking communities, highlighting bilingualism, identity, and innovative teaching strategies. It emphasizes the benefits of linguistic diversity for personal and academic growth.
Brief description: Fabrice Jaumont is a scholar-practitioner, award-winning author, non-profit leader, and education advisor based in New York. He is President of the Center for the Advancement of Languages, Education, and Communities, a nonprofit publishing organization based in New York and Paris. He has published nine books on bilingualism and education, philanthropy, and higher education, including The Bilingual Revolution: The Future of Education is in Two Languages and Conversations on Bilingualism.
Review Quotes:
Mosaic of Tongues presents a skillfully crafted mosaic of chapters that chart a new frontier for Arabic as it asserts its presence as a global language. Bilingualism and multilingualism are increasingly shaping the linguistic situation in Arabic-speaking countries and communities worldwide and the educational systems in which Arabic is embedded. Utilizing Arabic as a model, the volume provides a wealth of insightful perspectives on language learning and education within a global context, making it a must-read for educators, parents, and policymakers.
- Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal, Professor Emeritus of Arabic, The University of Texas, Austin, USA
A fascinating mosaic of personal and research-based accounts that explore what it means to come to terms with our mother tongue(s) in the face of socio-political realities that challenge our very identities. Arabic language educators will be inspired to reflect on how to train multilingual and multicultural citizens who can positively impact the world with kindness and compassion.
- Laila Familiar, Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language Consultant and Teacher Trainer, NYU Abu Dhabi
Mosaic of Tongues: Multilingual Learning for the Arabic-Speaking World tackles the challenges and opportunities of multilingual education in the modern Middle East and North Africa. Through a series of essays that are in equal measure academically rigorous and deeply personal, the book's editors and authors make the case anew in favor of multilingual education.
-Stavros N. Yiannouka, CEO of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), Qatar.