Abstracts Archive

Students majoring in modern foreign languages in the Netherlands can follow up to 90 ECTS of content classes in another language than their major language. Usually, these classes are given in English used as a lingua franca. As a result, the entire linguistic repertoire present in the classroom is n...

Teachers have a profound effect on students, both in terms of learning and social and emotional development. Research on teacher education has shown the importance of teachers on students' lives. This has never been truer than with language minoritized, multilingual students (ML) in schools today. A...

This paper is based on the book More than "Just Good Teaching": Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Racism, currently under review with Multilingual Matters. The project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, was designed in response to a 2015 teacher-ed...

How can we reconceptualize teachers' ideas of a homogeneous learner group? The paper presents several international research projects that approach the topic on three levels: the macro level of language policy, the meso level of educational institutions and the micro level of interaction.

Schools throughout the globe are experiencing a growing number of pupils with a linguistic and culturally diverse background, leading to the emergence of new pedagogical challenges. These have highlighted both newly qualified and experienced teachers' lack of knowledge and skills for dealing with th...

The aim of the contribution is to explore the holistic approach to multilingualism in teacher education from a critical theoretical and an empirical perspective. In the theoretical discussion biographical approaches to teacher development are connected with concepts relating to "(linguistic) diversi...

Learning groups have become more heterogeneous in all areas of the educational system. The present study focuses on the perspective of allochthonous multilingual student-teachers toward language and heritage and their effect on their future role as teachers in multilingual classrooms. What teacher e...