Use of Languages Across the Curriculum

The chapter considers ways in which languages have been structured into everyday teaching and learning across the curriculum. Use of languages is considered in different contexts and includes programmes that target the learning of a language at school and English-medium settings where students are able to leverage a language they speak at home to assist in their learning. My aim in the chapter is to provide some background on how bilingual education and the education of (emergent) bi/multilinguals has been conceptualised in relation to language use, and also to discuss language-related pedagogies. Cross-curricular distribution of languages is discussed first in relation to instructional language separation, language flexibility and incorporation of students’ languages into English-medium classes. Everyday language-related pedagogies then focus on both learning through a target language and cross linguistic learning.