Perspectivas actuales en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de lenguas en contextos multiculturales

Current perspectives in languaje teaching and learning in multicultural contexts

Muñoz Liceras, Juana (ed.)
Planelles Almeida, Margarita (ed.)
Foucart, Alice (ed.)

The general aim of this volume, as its title indicates, is to present and discuss current empirical, pedagogical and technological approaches to the acquisition and teaching of non-native (second -L2, third -L3) languages in the context of the multicultural society in which we are immersed. Learners are the protagonists of the volume in that the various chapters focus on the non-native language learning and non-native language teaching principles, mechanisms and processes that lead them to acquire and use a language other than their native language or L1. A clearly innovative aspect of the volume is the fact that it deals with learners that come from all walks of life, as there are foreign and second language learners, third language learners, simultaneous and sequential bilinguals, immigrant speakers, heritage speakers and speakers of minority languages. The volume offers a multicultural perspective in that the learning and/or teaching accounted for by the various chapters takes place in different geographical areas, in different communities and in either natural or institutional settings