PREFACE The editor
CHAPTER 1: Introduction and critical review the key concepts in this volume:
mediation and plurilingualism, Bessie Dendrinos
CHAPTER 2: Mediation for plurilingual competence: synergies and implications,
Enrica Piccardo
CHAPTER 3: Developing an action-oriented perspective on mediation: The new
CEFRCV descriptors, Brian North
CHAPTER 4: Developing Mediation Skills at University Language Centres: How
meaningful tasks make language learning relevant to the learner, Johan
Fischer
CHAPTER 5: Mediation as a test format in German high-stakes school-leaving
exams, Elisabeth Kolb
CHAPTER 6: Conceptualisation and operationalisation of linguistic mediation as a
testing construct: A case study, Bessie Dendrinos & Evdokia Karavas
CHAPTER 7: Mediation-in-interaction in computer-enhanced non-formal contexts for
learning English, Dolors Masats, Emilee Moore & Almudena Herrera
CHAPTER 8: Cross-Linguistic Mediation and Linguistic Hybridity, Maria
Stathopoulou
CHAPTER 9: Translation and Mediation: From Theoretical Models to Self[1]Awareness and Pedagogy, Loredana Polezzi
CHAPTER 10: Mediated interactions between teachers and immigrant parents, Claudio
Baraldi
CHAPTER 11: Bi-/multilingual youths mediation practices in daily life. Lessons to be
learned, Elvira Hadzi
CHAPTER 12: Mediation as a means of negotiating difference in a multilingual
community: An educational intervention project, Thalia Dragona
Bessie Dendrinos is Professor Emerita at the National and Kapodistrian UniversitylCİ