Plurilingualism and Multiliteracies

Dagmar Abendroth-Timmer

• 17 april 2014
• 9783631629260

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LANGSCAPE is a plurilingual international research network on language acquisition and language education. This volume presents research projects of the network members dealing with identity construction processes of learners and educators in plurilingual, multicultural or media-based learning environments and focuses on issues of language policy.



LANGSCAPE is a plurilingual and multicultural international research network on language acquisition and language education. The current research focus is on Identity Construction in Language Education. This volume summarizes some research results of the last four years by presenting empirical research projects as well as theoretical concepts. The contributions all deal with topics linked to plurilingualism or to certain aspects of the concept of multiliteracies like globalization, language policy, multiculturalism, multimodal communication processes, intercultural learning etc. The authors conceptualize or analyse identity construction processes of learners and educators in different plurilingual and multicultural learning environments or media based settings.