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The entry aims to provide insights into the evolution of multilingual education through the lens of super-diversity.

March 6, 2026Open Access

Superdiversity and multilingual education

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The entry aims to provide insights into the evolution of multilingual education through the lens of super-diversity.
Overview of changes in multilingual education
Discussion on policing of multilingual education
Analysis of conceptual implications of super-diversity for language studies
Super-diversity shifts the understanding of multilingualism from group-based to individual-based
Challenges normative notions of linguistic competence and performance
Highlights the complexity and richness of language dynamics in educational settings

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This entry will offer an overview of the changes that have taken place in multilingual education and its policing. Further, it stresses the conceptual wealth that super-diversity holds for language studies in general and for multilingual education in particular. Last, it explores how super-diversity has managed to have multilingual education move away from a group-based understanding of multilingualism and from a normative-based understanding of competence and performance.

Superdiversity and multilingual education

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