This volume looks at the application of pedagogically-structured online collaborative
learning initiatives between groups of learners in different geographical locations. This type …

Ethnic identity refers to the subjective experience embracing the feelings, experiences, and
behaviors through which people position their membership in a single or multiple ethnic …

Winner of the AAAL Book Award 2015Winner of the Modern Language Association's Thirty-
Third Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2014 Translingual …

criticisms convincing and devastating. I concur that the monolingual bias has become
unsustainable for the field of SLA, as for any other field that aspires to understand multiple …

Welche Faktoren beeinflussen das Erlernen einer Fremdsprache, und was folgt daraus für
den Fremdsprachenunterricht? Dieser Schlüsselfrage unterrichtlichen Geschehens geht die …

Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that
bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition …

developmental path that ends with an interlanguage in the second language (L2) that is
separate from the L1, and in some cases this individual will achieve the status of a dual …

There is a wide body of research that shows how vitally important teachers are to successful
learning processes. What they do, think, feel and believe are central to what happens in their …

This study establishes the multilingual turn as part of a critical movement in education. It
highlights the importance we ought to attach to how we understand the concepts of …

This volume addresses the role of communicative interaction in driving various dimensions
of second language development from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural …