Multilingual Perspectives from Europe and Beyond on Language Policy and Practice

Bruna Di Sabato is full professor of Language Education at the Università di Napoli Suor Orsola Benincasa, Italy. Her principal research interests are educational linguistics, translation and English linguistics. Bronwen Hughes is a senior researcher in English Linguistics at the Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy. Her research interests lie in the fields of translation as a tool for second language acquisition, cross-cultural media studies and forensic linguistics.

• Part 1: Ouverture; Preface; 1. Multilingual perspectives from Europe and beyond on language policy and practice- picking up the threads; Part 2: The chapters; 2. Teaching language in the library: a translanguaging pedagogy in the city; 3. Translanguaging or code-switching? Re-examining the functions of language in EMI classrooms; 4. Learner strategies in English Medium Instruction context; 5. Small rights for little homes? Minority languages in Europe between policies and ideologies; 6. From coal mines to text mining: European institutions and the Babel of languages; 7. Investigating translanguaging practices in an English medium higher education context in Turkey: a case of two lecturers; 8. Making a case for language study in the US: when the social contexts and cognitive consequences of bilingualism align

‘In recent years the teaching of English as a Medium of Instruction has become one of the ‘hot’ issues in the field of global education. Often accused of being a new form of colonialism, it is only by integrating EMI within a paradigm that also includes translanguaging and the use of English as a Lingua Franca that respect for native languages and cultures can effectively be maintained worldwide. The volume edited by Di Sabato and Hughes competently illustrates these highly topical concerns’.Paolo Balboni, Università Ca’ Foscari, Italy‘If ever we needed a time to find ways of understanding each other that go above and beyond mere linguacultural differences, that time is now. Language education is critical for this and must adapt to our superdiverse world. The contributions in this wonderful volume help show the way’.Andy Kirkpatrick, Professor Emeritus, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.