The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education (Paperback, 1)

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

An Introduction to Plurilingualism and This Handbook

Summaries of Chapters in the Handbook

1 Promoting Plurilingualism and Plurilingual Education: A European Perspective

2 Plurilingualism and the Tangled Web of Lingualisms

3 The Mediated Nature of Plurilingualism

4 Cosmopolitanism and Plurilingual Traditions: Learning from South Asian and Southern African Practices of Intercultural Communication

Part I: Critical Friend Response

5 Language, Languaging, Plurilanguaging: Considerations on the Nature of Language and Language Education

6 Evaluating Theoretical Constructs Underlying Plurilingual Pedagogies: The Role of Teachers as Knowledge-Generators and Agents of Language Policy

7 Latin American Postcolonial Approaches to Plurilingualism: The Mexican Experience

8 Linguistic Hybridity and Global Mobility

Part II: Critical Friend Response

9 Neuroscience and Plurilingual Education: Trends for a Research Agenda

10 The Cognitive and Psychological Dimensions of Plurilingualism

11 A Sociocognitive Theory for Plurilingualism: Complex Dynamic Systems Theory

12 Plurilingual Creativity: A New Framework for Research in Plurilingual and Creative Practices

Part III: Critical Friend Response

13 Questioning Human and Material Boundaries in Plurilingual Identity Construction

14 Social Sciences’ Last Hope: Giving Plurilingualism a Chance?

15 Online Plurilingual Interaction: Identity Construction and Development of Plurilingual Competence in Students and Teachers: A Focus on Intercomprehension

16 What Can Theatre Contribute to Plurilingual Education?

Part IV: Critical Friend Response

17 Plurilingual Mediation in the Classroom: Examples from Practice

18 Intercomprehension: Strengths and Opportunities of a Pluralistic Approach

19 Language Assessment in the Context of Plurilingualism

20 A Multi-Perspective Tour of Best Practices

Perspective 1: Plurilingual Education in Europe: Contexts, Initiatives and Ongoing Challenges

Perspective 2: Challenges to Implementing Best Practices in Complex Plurilingual Environments: The Case of South Asia

Perspective 3: Plurilingualism in Southern Africa

Perspective 4: Plurilingual Possibilities in the US: Beyond Translanguaging with Minoritized Bilinguals to Critical Multilingual Language Awareness for All Learners

Perspective 5: Plurilingual Teachers in a Monolingual Disguise: Linguistic Landscapes and Language Pedagogy in Two Brazilian Language Programmes

Perspective 6: Plurilingual Practices: A Canadian Perspective

Perspective 7: Plurilingual Perspectives in Australian Education

Part V: Critical Friend Response

21 Language Revitalization as a Plurilingual Endeavour

22 Plurilingualism in Digital Spaces

23 Examining the Nature and Potential of Plurilingual Language Education: Towards a Seven-Step Plurilingual Language Education Framework

24 The Ongoing Role of the CEFR in Our Plurilingual Landscape

Part VI: Critical Friend Response