This volume focuses on research in bilingual and multilingual education. It discusses the
results of research conducted in different multilingual educational contexts and particularly …

The present study was developed to assess teachers' beliefs on (1) the role of prior
language knowledge in language learning;(2) the perceived usefulness of language …

Most studies involving trilingualism have been carried out within the theoretical framework of
bilingualism research. No attempt has been made to delimit trilingualism as a concept in its …

We present a framework of second and additional language (L2/Ln) acquisition motivated by
recent work on socio‐indexical knowledge in first language (L1) processing. The distribution …

This book tells the story of the indigenous Aanaar Saami language (around 350 speakers)
and cultural revitalisation in Finland. It offers a new language revitalisation method that can …

The Threshold Hypothesis states that it is students who develop a high level of competence
in two languages that most benefit from their bilingualism. This is borne out by findings that …

This study aimed at comparing the performance of two bilingual groups of EFL students with
that of a monolingual group on a controlled productive ability vocabulary test. Altogether 30 …

This study was designed to investigate whether the threshold level hypothesis (Cummins,
1976, 1979) could be applied to a three-language-in-contact school situation. The learning …

It is estimated that most language users in the world speak more than one language, ie they
are at least bilingual. In quantitative terms, then, monolingualism may be regarded as the …

This book contributes to current issues in TLA and multilingualism research. It discusses
multilingual learning and development from a Dynamic Systems Theory perspective. The …