Multilingual Matters Limited

This volume investigates the ways in which Q methodology contributes to language education and language policy research, demonstrating how this research approach can be used to explore topics...

This book addresses the question of agency in the revitalisation of minoritized languages in Europe. The chapters investigate how grassroots actors shape revitalisation, and how individuals and...

This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting international and innovative scholarship with practical classroom applications. The book develops a...

The chapters in this book bring together key figures and fresh voices from the field of teaching modern foreign languages (MFL) to young children to present a state-of-the-art volume on the topic...

This book explores how EFL writing teacher education is shaped, given teachers' unique local contexts and circumstances. The chapters prioritize local voices and materials in order to help build a...

This book provides readers with a critical and comprehensive overview of the historical development and ongoing trajectory of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). It examines a wide range of crucial...

This book honors the impactful contributions of Guadalupe Valdés, focusing on three major areas of her work: languages and literacies in multilingual contexts, language development in schools and...

This book seeks to disrupt the narrative about the process of academic writing and the written products which are currently valued in the university. The author uses writing as both a subject and a...

This overview of the linguistic development of Korean-English bilingual children in the US focuses on morphology and syntax acquisition in early childhood, a time when language dominance is shifting...

This book argues for a view of study abroad as emergent of tensions between localised and globalised imaginaries of language, identity, and place. It offers the first in-depth exploration of mobile...

This book explores how language teacher identity influences and is influenced by wellbeing. It develops our understanding of this interaction through a combination of Indigenous, psychological,...

This book employs a narrative policy portraiture approach to recenter the stories of those involved in the Lau v. Nichols court case. It brings Chinese and Chinese American voices to the forefront,...

This book asks what it means and what it takes for people to encounter one another ethically, beyond the boundaries of what is shared, in settings where ideological systems and imaginations clash. It...

Extending earlier work on grammar, this book investigates the development of tests measuring second language learners' implicit and explicit pragmatic abilities in English. It reports detailed...

This book focuses on individuals learning languages other than English in a range of under-researched Asian contexts. The chapters explore learners' motivational trajectories, multilingual identities...

This book brings together findings on content-based teacher education from international contexts to help prepare teachers for this challenging setting. It offers a solid grounding in theories and...

This book tells the stories of 15 world language (WL) teachers in the US through rich descriptions of their lived worlds and experiences. It illustrates in detail how teacher beliefs relate to their...

This book presents a validated observation instrument to support and develop the pedagogic expertise of teachers of English Learners in US schools. With real examples of classroom observations, it...

This book fosters an awareness of multilingualism as lived or as subjectively experienced from the perspective of those involved in language education and teacher education. It illustrates how visual...