Bi And Multilingualism From Various Perspectives Of Applied Linguistics

Download or read book Bi- and Multilingualism from Various Perspectives of Applied Linguistics written by Zofia Chłopek and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises 16 chapters – both research papers and theoretical contributions – grouped in three thematic sections. The chapters in the first part, entitled "Discourse Communities: Languages in Contact," adopt a social and/or historical perspective on bi-/multilingualism. The contributions in the second part, entitled "Languages in the Mind: Language Development and Language Use," view issues related to bi- and multilingualism from psycholinguistic and psychological perspectives. The chapters comprising the third part, "Language Education: Supporting Multilingual Development," adopt a broadly understood didactic perspective on bi-/multilingualism.