Superdiversity explores processes of diversification and the complex, emergent social
configurations that now supersede prior forms of diversity in societies around the world …

This book contributes to the growing field of foreign language teaching and testing by
shedding light on mediation between languages. Stathopoulou offers an empirically …

This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and
interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual …

The idea that there exist separate, enumerable languages has in the last decades been
widely criticised, and it has led scholars to propose various new terms and concepts such as …

This paper discusses data from a Dutch-medium secondary school in Brussels where almost
all pupils speak a different language than Dutch at home. It illustrates that teachers' …

This thesis presents an investigation of the complexities of the immediate, ideological,
educational, and societal contexts for literacy development among North Sámi learners …

This paper is the result of a research project exploring the complex nature of interlinguistic
mediation, ie, a translanguaging activity which involves relaying of information from one …

This study focuses on students' orientations towards multilingualism in a Swedish-speaking
educational degree program in Finland. Swedish is one of the two national languages in …

This chapter deals with linguistic hybridityas a result of cross-linguistic mediation of texts
produced by learners of English. Understanding that cross-linguistic mediation involves the …

Purpose Fiji is a multicultural and linguistically multi-competent country. Historical ethnic
divisions have socialised students into language friendships based around common …