Bilingualism & Multilingualism

This edited volume has been compiled in honour of Professor Merrill Swain, one of the most prominent scholars in the field of second language acqui...

The studies in this collection seek to examine the notions of ‘linguistic diversity’ and ‘hybridity’ through the lenses of new critical theories an...

This edited book is a collection of studies on protolanguage phonology, referring to the development of children’s autonomous linguistic systems fr...

This book explores young children's language acquisition in multilingual households through an original longitudinal study of the author's own chil...

This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration ...

Research on academic literacy within higher education has focused almost exclusively on the development of academic literacy in English. This book ...

This book offers a unique understanding of how researchers’ linguistic resources, and the languages they use in the research process, are often pol...

This book examines translanguaging as a resource which can disrupt the privileging of particular voices, and a social practice which enables collab...

This book follows four emergent bilingual students in an English-medium pre-kindergarten in the US as they navigate the social and linguistic deman...

This book is both a collection of cutting-edge research in the areas of multilingualism, translanguaging and bilingual education by leading scholar...

The body of research in this volume offers a detailed account of the success of young immersion learners of Irish in becoming competent speakers of...

This book is both a collection of cutting-edge research in the areas of multilingualism, translanguaging and bilingual education by leading scholar...

The concept of chronotopicity is increasingly used in sociolinguistic theorizing as a new way of looking at context and scale in studies of languag...

The body of research in this volume offers a detailed account of the success of young immersion learners of Irish in becoming competent speakers of...

This book promotes linguistically responsive foreign language teaching practices in multilingual contexts by facilitating a dialogue between teache...

This book promotes linguistically responsive foreign language teaching practices in multilingual contexts by facilitating a dialogue between teache...

With increasing mobility of people across the world, there is a pressing need to develop evidence-based teaching practices that lead to high-qualit...

With increasing mobility of people across the world, there is a pressing need to develop evidence-based teaching practices that lead to high-qualit...

This collection examines a diverse range of approaches to multilingualism in teacher education programmes across Europe and North America. The auth...

This book presents the background to the current shift in language education towards action-oriented/action-based teaching, and provides a theoriza...

This book demonstrates the positive impact of using film and audiovisual material in the language classroom. The chapters are evidence-based and ad...

This book argues for the value of digital literacy in the multilingual writing classroom. Against the background of huge changes in literacy practi...

This highly original book brings compelling narratives of migration and social diversity vividly to life. At once a play script and an outcome of e...

This book investigates multilingual literacy practices, explores the technology applied in different educational frameworks, the centrality of mult...