SAIL

Studi sull’apprendimento e l’insegnamento linguistico

Policies and Practices for Linguistic Education, Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication

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    edited by
  • Sandro Caruana - L-Università ta’ Malta, Malta - email
  • Karl Chircop - L-Università ta’ Malta, Malta - email
  • Phyllisienne Gauci - L-Università ta’ Malta, Malta - email
  • Mario Pace - L-Università ta’ Malta, Malta - email

Abstract

Valuing diversity is one of the main goals of language education. This is both related to the education of learners of different nationalities and to the reasons for which languages are learned today, often determined by the need for social integration and to find employment. Language competences gain value through multilingualism, together with opportunities for intercultural communication. At the same time, language policies should be evaluated and renewed constantly. These issues are discussed in this volume, through contributions which take different languages into consideration and which are based on varied theoretical and conceptual frameworks, while pertaining to the fields of Applied Linguistics and Language Education.

Keywords Pragmatic competence • Hermeneutics • Teaching Italian culture as L2 • Translinguistic influence • TreeTagger • Colonial languages • Second generation immigrants • Automatic assessment system • Complaints • L2 learning • Syntactic transfer • Intercultural pedagogy • Reception centres • Teaching Italian as a L2 • Geragogy • Early language learning • Language learning • Multilingual competence • Secondary school • Teacher training • Talented language learners • Multilingualism • Asylum seekers • Didactic tools • Italian L2 • Kindergarten • Intercultural education • Politeness • Teacher talk • Translanguaging • Language evaluation • Plurilingual education • Linguistic competence • Interlanguage pragmatics • Family language policies • Immigration • Language policies • Language planning • Native teachers • Linguistic landscaping • Facilitators • Education • Plurilingual writing • Internationalization • Foreign languages • Consultation skills • Linguistic code • Parental involvement • Second Language Acquisition • Immigrant students • Transfer • Migration • Literary text • Iconic code • Cooperative techniques • Bilingual education • Higher education • Lexical analysis • Misunderstandings • Psycho-affective dimension • Bilingual identity • The English classroom • African languages • Virtual learning environment • Linguistics of football • Tertiary education • Multimodality • Language skills • Linguistic Landscape • Health • Linguistic repertoire • Gifted students • Motivational strategies • Cognitive reserve • Second Language • Vocabulary • Literature education • Interviews • Trainee teachers • Higher Education • Teaching survey • Refusals • Global citizenship • Bilingualism • Learning difficulties • Language Education • Intercultural relationships • Language education • Special educational needs • Politeness theory • Multilingual education • Italian as a second language • CLIL • Mobile apps • School communication practices • Giftedness • Non-native teachers • Rapport management • Intercultural communication • Dialogue • Illiteracy • L2 motivation • European Union • Morphological transfer • Language testing • Successful aging • L2 and L3 acquisition • Plurilingualism • Academic language • Teachers’ beliefs • Economy • European language policies • Foreign language learning • Literacy competence • Foreign university students • Museum education • Dictionary use • Language input • Primary school • Language contact • Intercultural competence • Educational linguistics • CALP • Hispanic learners • Vehicular language • Communicative effectiveness • Language teaching • Forced migrants • Learning contexts • Inclusion • Seasonal migration • Teachers’ cognition • Communicative competence • Reference skills • Affective factors • Speech acts • African Union • Teacher education • Learning strategies • First language • Crosslinguistic influence • Digital resources • Venetian ice cream makers • Language policy • Code-switching • Multiculturalism • Strategic Competence • Language teachers • Lexicon • Online dictionaries • Street Art • Prosody • Language learning strategies • Perceived politeness • Migrant learners • Corpus analysis • Elderly FL students • Modified input • Dialogical approach • Second language acquisition • School scaping • English as a foreign language

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-501-8 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-501-8 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-502-5 | Published May 24, 2021 | Submitted Oct. 16, 2020 | Language it

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