Introduction

Yet another journal on multilingualism?

Authors

  • Britta Hufeisen Technical University of Darmstadt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jmtp.17695

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Introduction

Author Biography

  • Britta Hufeisen, Technical University of Darmstadt

    Britta Hufeisen is a full professor of multilingualism at Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany. Her research areas are multiple language acquisition and learning, text competencies in a foreign language, and plurilingual whole school policies. She engages in research projects all over the world, with an emphasis on the Scandinavian countries and languages. She received her PhD at Kassel University with a thesis on German as an L3 and her habilitation at Technical University in Darmstadt with a thesis on hybrid texts in a foreign language. Before joining Technical University in Darmstadt she was an Assistant Professor of Applied German Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Canada.

References

Aronin, L. (2019). Dominant Language Constellation as a Method of Research. In E. Vetter & U. Jessner (Eds.), International Research on Multilingualism Breaking with the Monolingual Perspective (pp. 13–26). Cham: Springer.

Herdina, P. & U. Jessner (2002). A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism: Perspectives of Change in Psycholinguistics. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Hufeisen, B. (2018). Institutional Education and Multilingualism: PlurCur® as a Prototype of a Multilingual Whole School Policy. European Journal of Applied Linguistics 6(1): 1–32.

Schwarzl, L. & Vetter, E. (2020). Translanguaging and Multilingual Texts as a Resource in Superdiverse Classrooms. Cahiers de l’ILOB/OLBI Working Papers 10, 229-248 [https://doi.org/10.18192/olbiwp.v10i0.3822].

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Published

2020-10-15

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Introduction

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How to Cite

Hufeisen, B. (2020). Introduction: Yet another journal on multilingualism?. Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, 1(1), 4-7. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmtp.17695