Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1. Policies
5. Plurilingualism and the challenges of education 15
6. The Council of Europe’s Language Education Policy Profile 33
7. Australian Language Policy and the design of a national curriculum for languages 55
8. Acts of identity in the continuum from multilingual practices to language policy 75
9. Minority language instruction in Berlin and Brandenburg 87
10. Part 2. Multilingual practices
11. Dynamics and management of linguistic diversity in companies and institutions of higher education 113
12. Discourse, representation and language practices 139
13. “Because it is my life, and I’m the one who makes choices” – Newcomers in the French education system and career guidance 161
14. The effects of language transfer as a resource in instruction 181
15. Part 3. Language development
16. Effects of biliteracy on third language reading proficiency, the example of Turkish-German bilinguals 199
17. L1 and L2 proficiency in Hebrew English adolescent learners 219
18. Developing a written lexicon in a multilingual environment 245
19. Index 259