Language Awareness and Identity

Larissa Aronin is an author and co-author of textbooks on multilingualism, such as An Advanced Guide to Multilingualism 2022, Twelve Lectures on Multilingualism 2019 and co-edited the Springer volumes on Dominant Language Constellations. Aronin served as a Secretary of the International Association of Multilingualism. She is a Board Member of Language Teaching (CUP) and an Editorial Board member of a number of international peer-reviewed journals.Sílva Melo-Pfeifer holds a PhD in foreign language education and is Full Professor at the University of Hamburg (Germany) in the field of language teacher education. Her research interests include pluralistic approaches to foreign language learning and teaching and in teacher education, heritage language, multilingual interaction, and arts-based approaches to education and research.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding Identity and Language(s) Awareness by dint of DLC.- Part I: DLC, Identity, Awareness, and Language Policy.- Chapter 2: Dominant Language Constellations and Language Policy and Planning in Two Settings: Perspectives from Tunisia.- Chapter 3: Digital DLC models as instruments for raising awareness and better understanding of current multilingualism in HEI.- Part II: DLC-Identity-Awareness triad in formal language education: from primary to higher education.- Chapter 4: Applying DLC to the study and discussion of early multicompetence in a trilingual minority context in Northern Italy.- Chapter 5: (En)Countering the ‘White’ Gaze: Native-speakerist Rhetorics and the Raciolinguistics of Hegemony.- Chapter 6: Language repertoires or individual dominant language constellations: the reality of instructed educational settings in a (mostly) monolingual context.- Chapter 7: Dominant Language Constellation and plurilingual awareness:  The case of Student Language Teachers in Greece.- Chapter 8: Are teachers developing strategies to enhance the use of DLC in the learning of Portuguese as a foreign language in English-dominant Classrooms?.- Chapter 9: DLC of consecutive multilinguals studying languages in an officially monolingual environment.- Part III: DLC-Identity-Awareness triad in teacher education and professional development.- Chapter 10: ‘Speaking about my languages promotes my language awareness’: Student Teacher Beliefs about Language Awareness and Their Dominant Language Constellations.- Chapter 11: Pre-service Teachers’ Professional Identity and Representations of English as a Foreign Language: toward a Dominant Language (Teaching) Constellation?.- Chapter 12: The dynamics of Dominant Language Constellations: Moments of linguistic ecological transition as portrayed by pre-service foreign language teachers.- Chapter 13: ‘We Can Do More With It’: Dominant Language Constellations of Teachers in Multilingual Frisian Primary Schools.- Chapter 14: Dominant Language Constellations, Identity, and Awareness: a posse ad esse.