Bilingualism & Multilingualism

The multiliteracies approach to literacy education has become established as an accessible and effective paradigm for classroom practice in the 21s...

The testing and assessment of language competence continues to be a much debated issue in foreign language teaching and research. This book is the ...

This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the author...

This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children’s needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advo...

This ethnographic study explores aspects of bilingual education in two early childhood German–English education centres in Australia. Using various...

The presence of students for whom the school language is not their first language creates unique challenges and opportunities for teachers. This bo...

Shortlisted for the 2020 BAAL Book Prize This book brings together empirical studies from around the world to help readers gain a better understan...

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature...

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature...

In the last 20 years dual language education programs have increased in number and expanded in range. Whereas once they were predominantly focused ...

Vestiges of monolingual bias are present in the portrayal of study abroad as an idealized monolingual immersion experience and the steps many progr...

Many Asian education systems discourage or even ban the use of L1 in L2 classrooms – although in fact L1 remains widely used by teachers. Why is L1...

North American universities depend on international teaching assistants (ITAs) as a substantial part of the teaching labor force, which has led to ...

This book presents research focused on young emergent bilingual children’s multimodal meaning-making processes in diverse cultural and linguistic s...

The seventh edition of this bestselling textbook has been extensively revised and updated to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to...

This book explores the question of how equitable and inclusive education can be implemented in heterogeneous classes where learners’ languages and ...

This book examines the writing practices of three adult multilingual writers through the prism of their writing in English as an additional languag...

This book juxtaposes superdiversity with the reality of English-centricity in the United States, set against the long-standing challenges regarding...

This book juxtaposes superdiversity with the reality of English-centricity in the United States, set against the long-standing challenges regarding...

North American universities depend on international teaching assistants (ITAs) as a substantial part of the teaching labor force, which has led to ...

This book demonstrates the power and distinctiveness of the contribution that sociolinguistics can make to our understanding of everyday communicat...

Certain forms of mobility and multilingualism tend to be portrayed as problematic in the public sphere, while others are considered to be unremarka...

South African universities face major challenges in meeting the needs of their students in the area of academic language and literacy. The dominant...

In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the import...