The volume offers a collection of the most recent research coming from scholars and practitioners in the field of multilingualism research in various contexts of natural/immersion environments, school/formal instruction, grounded in multilingual societies and individual multilinguality of semi-monolingual countries. The studies included in the book constitute an exemplification of new methods of research used (e.g., narratives, visualizations, metaphors) as well as new approaches to multilingualism (affordances, dominant language constellations). The volume is divided into four parts:
Part One focuses on different dimensions of multilingualism,
Part Two zooms in on the concept of affordances and their role in the development of multilingual competence,
Part Three concentrates on dominant language constellations in different contexts and, finally,
Part Four shifts the focus to instructional practices in teaching multiple languages.
Introduction.- Philosophy of Multilingualism and Technology: From Representation to Attunement.- Endangered Species Bilingualism ? How we Spin Constructs to Suit our Purposes.- Borders and Borderlands in Aronin and Politis Edge Metaphor.- The Concept of Functional Multilingualism in the Context of Internationalisation at German Universities.- EFL Teachers Perceptions of Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy.- Young Multilingual Pragmatics. A Focus on Requests in CLIL and non-CLIL settings.- News and Stories from the Multilingual World.- Affordances for Multilingual Development in Minority Contexts: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Multilingualism in South Tyrol.- Learning Multiple Languages in an Instructional Setting: Insights from the Study of Affordances and from the ConceptualizatlƒB
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