Cross-Linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition

Jasone Cenoz is professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country. Her research focuses on bilingualism and multilingualism in educational settings. She is the editor (in collaboration with Ulrike Jessner) of ‘The International Journal of Multilingualism’ and ‘Aila Review’. She is publications coordinator of AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics) and she is the vice-president of IAM (International Association of Multilingualism). She has published widely on bilingualism and multilingualism and her most recent volume is ‘Towards Multilingual Education: Basque Educational Research in International Perspective’ which will be published by Multilingual Matters.

Britta Hufeisen is Director of the Language Resource Center at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Edmonton/AB, Canada. She has published in the fields of third language acquisition and multilingualism. Another area of interest is the analysis of cultural-specificity in the development of foreign language learner narrative genres.

ULRIKE JESSNER is Professor at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Veszprem. She has published widely in the field of bilingualism and

multilingualism with a special focus on the acquisition of English in

multilingual contexts. She is the co-author of A dynamic model of

multilingualism (with Philip Herdina in 2002) and Linguistic awareness of multilinguals: English as a third language (2006). She is also founding editor of the International Journal of Multilingualism and the book series Trends in Applied Linguistics (with Claire Kramsch from Berkeley University) Furthermore she has been engaged in the development of the research area of third language acquisition/multilingualism both as organiser of the biennial international L3-conferences and as founding member and President of the International Association of Multilingualism.

Jasone Cenoz is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). She co-edited the books Beyond Bilingualism and English in Europe (Multilingual Matters 1998, 2000) and has published in the fields of second/third language acquisition, multilingualism and interlanguage pragmatics.

Britta Hufeisen is Director of the Language Resource Center at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Edmonton/AB, Canada. She has published in the fields of third language acquisition and multilingualism. Another area of interest is the analysis of cultural-specificity in the development of foreign language learner narrative genres.

Ulrike Jessner has published on psycholinguistic issues in the fields of first and second language acquisition, multilingualism and gender issues. Recently she has co-edited the book English in Europe and is co-author of A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism. She is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck.