This article reviews Language Awareness (LA) as a field of research and practice. It deals
with the period from 1990 to the present, asking what LA is, how it has been collectively …

This volume focuses on research in bilingual and multilingual education. It discusses the
results of research conducted in different multilingual educational contexts and particularly …

This article explores adolescent students' attitudes toward learning English and other
European languages studied at secondary school. The study is based on 2255 qualitative …

This book examines the various ways in which age affects the process and the product of
foreign language learning in a school setting. It presents studies that cover a wide range of …

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is burgeoning all over Europe and this is
particularly so in Spain. During the last 10 years, content language instruction through a …

Una de las características más singulares del mundo contemporáneo es la importancia
asignada a la adquisición de una segunda lengua como garantía para la competitividad en …

In any process of linguistic standardization, the promotion of one variety to the status of
standard triggers the devaluation of the other linguistic varieties present within the …

En el aprendizaje de segundas o terceras lenguas, se debe destacar el importante papel
que juegan las actitudes lingüísticas. En este artículo, en primer lugar, nos acercamos …

Cross-linguistic influence (CLI) is receiving increasing attention in multilingual learners
(Cenoz et al., 2001). Research with bilingual learners has analysed CLI in relation to …

Bearing in mind the relevance of immigration in Spain, we consider the linguistic
idiosyncrasy of the autonomous community of Catalonia in the present study to describe and …