Learning through the medium of a second or additional language is becoming very common
in different parts of the world because of the increasing use of English as the language of …

ABSTRACT Following Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the authors of this article reject the type
of “abyssal thinking” that erases the existence of counter-hegemonic knowledges and …

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical
concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction …

Teaching English has traditionally been associated with a monolingual bias and the
exclusive use of English in the classroom is highly recommended in different countries …

The present study analyzes teachers' beliefs by looking at the value teachers give to the
languages embodying multilingualism in the south of the Basque Country (Basque, Spanish …

IN 2016, THE MODERN LANGUAGE fOURNAL (MLJ) celebrated 100 years of publication.
The centennial issue celebrating this important anniversary reminded readers (p. 4) that MLJ …

This book introduces Critical Language Awareness (CLA) Pedagogy as a robust and
research-grounded framework to engage and support students in critical examinations of …

There is a strong tradition of teaching second and foreign languages in isolation even when
programs aim at the development of bilingual or multilingual competences. This …

To better understand the factors facilitating or impeding the translation of “promising
controversies”(Taylor & Snoddon, 2013, p. 439) of plurilingualism theory into meaningful …

Translanguaging offers a new perspective on language learning by affirming and leveraging
the diverse language practices that make up learners' unitary language repertoire as …