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Through the application of self-determination theory (SDT) to research and practice, this book deepens our understanding of how autonomous language learning can be supported and understood outside of the classroom. The chapters deal with learning environments and open spaces, communities and relationships, and advising and self-access.

This book engages with new ways of understanding language that include other resources and practices and bring to the fore its messiness, unpredictability and interconnectedness. The chapters illustrate how a translingual and transcultural orientation to language can provide a point of entry to reimagining language education in the 21st century.

This book engages with new ways of understanding language that include other resources and practices and bring to the fore its messiness, unpredictability and interconnectedness. The chapters illustrate how a translingual and transcultural orientation to language can provide a point of entry to reimagining language education in the 21st century.

Through the application of self-determination theory (SDT) to research and practice, this book deepens our understanding of how autonomous language learning can be supported and understood outside of the classroom. The chapters deal with learning environments and open spaces, communities and relationships, and advising and self-access.

This book aims to advance multilingual research in foreign language education. It contributes to a discussion of how to foster the acquisition of subsequent foreign languages by engaging learners' existing linguistic resources in an optimal way, and how to strengthen the connection between research and foreign language teaching practice.

This book aims to advance multilingual research in foreign language education. It contributes to a discussion of how to foster the acquisition of subsequent foreign languages by engaging learners' existing linguistic resources in an optimal way, and how to strengthen the connection between research and foreign language teaching practice.

This book examines both writing norms and assessment, and proficiency development, and suggests that scholars need to critically examine testing regimes and develop research-based perspectives on tests and testing practices, so that educational institutions can prepare learners with differing cultural experiences for tests and assessments.

This book breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization through its focus on Asia and in the attention paid to multilingual contexts. The chapters add to our understanding of the ways in which multilingualism is implicated in language standardization, as well as the impact of language standards on multilingualism.

This book examines both writing norms and assessment, and proficiency development, and suggests that scholars need to critically examine testing regimes and develop research-based perspectives on tests and testing practices, so that educational institutions can prepare learners with differing cultural experiences for tests and assessments.

This book shows the transformative power of placing translanguaging at the center of teaching and learning. It shows how the centering of racialized Latinx bilingual students, including their knowledge systems and cultural and linguistic practices, transforms the monolingual-white supremacy ideology of many educational spaces.

This book provides an up-to-date examination of technology-supported pedagogy and language acquisition in a variety of Japanese as a foreign or second language contexts. It equips readers with practical pedagogical information and ideas for how technology can be applied to achieve a wide range of learning objectives.

Using data from a long-term ethnographic study of English language classrooms in a South African township, this book conceptualises language teaching not as a progression from one fixed language to another, but as a circular sorting process between linguistic heterogeneity (languaging) and homogeneity (a standard language).

The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.

Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces.

Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces.

The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.

The educational turn in linguistic and semiotic landscapes studies is advanced through this volume's broad and detailed analyses. Empirical examinations of interconnections among language, signs, space and practices combine with action research on mobilising linguistic landscapes as pedagogical resources to address scholars and practitioners alike.

The educational turn in linguistic and semiotic landscapes studies is advanced through this volume's broad and detailed analyses. Empirical examinations of interconnections among language, signs, space and practices combine with action research on mobilising linguistic landscapes as pedagogical resources to address scholars and practitioners alike.

This book supports writing educators on college campuses to work towards linguistic equity and social justice for multilingual students. It demonstrates how recent advances in theories on language, literacy, and race can be translated into pedagogical and administrative practice in a variety of contexts within US higher educational institutions.

This book chronicles the experiences of Quechuan bilingual college students who strive to maintain their ethnolinguistic identity while succeeding in Spanish-centric curricula. The book presents visual and textual insights and merges decolonial theory and participatory action research in pursuit of mobilizing Indigenous languages.

This book presents the current state of knowledge in the vibrant and diverse field of vocabulary studies, summarising the latest empirical studies and providing a firm indication of the future of the field. The chapters cover the key themes of theorizing and measuring vocabulary knowledge, formulaic language, and learning and teaching vocabulary.

This book provides an in-depth look into the systemic undereducation of high school English learners and the role of high schools in limiting ELs' postsecondary options, despite the availability of resources and the best of intentions, through a longitudinal ethnographic case study of a diverse high school in Pennsylvania.

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approaches, the chapters uncover the power dynamics and ideologies underlying varied constructs of Chineseness.

The chapters in this book call attention to vulnerabilities, challenges and risks for applied linguists and the communities they work with across a broad range of contexts from the Global North and South, and in both signed and spoken languages. Together they provide insights on both academic and professional practice across several areas.

The chapters in this book call attention to vulnerabilities, challenges and risks for applied linguists and the communities they work with across a broad range of contexts from the Global North and South, and in both signed and spoken languages. Together they provide insights on both academic and professional practice across several areas.

This book presents cutting-edge qualitative case-study research across a range of educational contexts, as well as theory-oriented chapters by distinguished multilingual education scholars, which take stock of the field of translanguaging in relation to the education of multilingual individuals in today's globalized world.

This book presents cutting-edge qualitative case-study research across a range of educational contexts, as well as theory-oriented chapters by distinguished multilingual education scholars, which take stock of the field of translanguaging in relation to the education of multilingual individuals in today's globalized world.