The study of linguistic landscapes and multilingual education
Durk Gorter is Ikerbasque research professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. He teaches in the European Master in Multilingualism and Education (EMME). He carries out research on multilingual education, including research lines such as Multilingualism in Educational Contexts; Comparative studies of European minority languages and Linguistic Landscapes in education.
His most recent work can be found published in the International Journal of Multilingualism (2021), in System and the special issue on Pedagogical translanguaging (2020) or in the Modern Language Journal and his work on Multilingualism, Translanguaging and Minority Languages in SLA (2019). His work can also be found in books: Language Awareness and Multilingualism (2017), Multilingual education: navigating between language learning and translanguaging (2015), Minority language and multilingual education: bridging the local and the global (2014), and in many, many book chapters.
Durk Gorter has been awarded for Distinguished Scholar of Multilingualism by the International Association of Multilingualism in 2018. He has also been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Language, Culture and Curriculum.
Pedagogical translanguaging in language and content classes
Jasone Cenoz is Professor of Research Methods in Education at the University of the Basque Country and has been President of the Education Science Committee of the Spanish Research Council (AEI). Her research focuses on bilingualism and multilingual education. Particularly, she studies the effect of bilingualism on third language acquisition, minority languages, the age factor, the linguistic landscape, and research methods in bilingualism and multilingualism.
Her work has been published extensively in well-known journals such as the International Journal of Bilingualism, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Applied Linguistics, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and The Modern Language Journal to name a few. In addition to this, Jasone Cenoz has also edited several books for well-known publishers such as “Towards Multilingual Education” (2009) by Multilingual Matters and “Multilingual Education” (2015) by Cambridge University Press. She has presented her work at conferences and seminars in the US, Canada, Australia, China, India, and all around Europe.
She has been President of the International Association of Multilingualism. She has also served as AILA publications coordinator and she has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Child Language. She is on the editorial board of a large number of scientific journals, most of them international.
10.50-11.10: Coffee break
Challenges of multilingual education in a (largely) monolingual context
Danuta Gabryś-Barker is full professor of applied psycholinguistics at the University of Silesia, Poland. For a long period of time before the recent before the university restructuring.
she has been the Head of the Department of Applied Psycholinguistics and member of the University Team for the Quality of Education. At the moment she holds the position of the Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Teaching Foreign Languages. She teaches introduction to multilingualism, methodology of teaching foreign languages, courses in positive psychology in FL teaching as well as research metohdology at the MA level. Her research interests include positive psychology, translanguaging, bilingual and multilingual education, language awareness and the impact of affective factors on language learning and teaching.
Her work has been published extensively in well-known journals such as the English Language Teaching (ELT) Journal, International Journal of Multilingualism, Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, to name a few. She has also edited multiple volumes and published her research in books of international scope, among others: Third Age Learners of Foreign Languages (Multilingual Matters, 2017), Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self (Springer, 2017) or a book chapter ”Applied Linguistics and Multilingualalism” in Twelves Lectures on Multilingualism (Multilingual Matters, 2018). Her work has been presented in numerous international conferences.
Danuta Gabryś-Barker has been a board member of the International Association of Multilingualism. She is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Multilingualism and the journal Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition. She is also a member of the editorial committee of a large number of scientific journals.
Foreign Language Enjoyment, Anxiety & Attitudes/Motivation: A longitudinal investigation
Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Birkbeck, University of London. He has published widely on individual differences in psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, pragmatic, psychological and emotional aspects of Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism. He is the author of the monograph Emotions in Multiple Languages in 2010 (2nd ed in 2013).
He is former president of the European Second Language Association and the International Association of Multilingualism. He is former General Editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and current General Èditor of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. He won the Equality and Diversity Research Award from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2013) and the Robert C. Gardner Award for Outstanding Research in Bilingualism (2016) from the International Association of Language and Social Psychology.
Dominant Language Constellations in multilingual education: insights and practices
Larissa Aronin is Associate Professor at the Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel. She has been a Visiting Scholar at MIT (2014), Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin (2008-2017), and Guest Professor at the Technical Universität Darmstadt (2016). She is currently Guest Professor at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Larissa has served two terms (2010-2014) as Secretary of the International Association of Multilingualism, and is a Board Member of the journal Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press) and an Editorial Board member of a number of international peer-reviewed journals.
Larissa is an interdisciplinary researcher who has published widely on a range of topics connected with multilingualism in international journals such as the International Journal of Multilingualism, Language Teaching, Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, AILA review, and Critical Multilingualism Studies. She has also authored and co-authored several books on multilingualism, including Multilingualism (John Benjamins, 2012), Material culture of Multilingualism (Springer, 2018), Twelve Lectures on Multilingualism (Multilingual Matters, 2019), Dominant Language Constellations: A new perspective on multilingualism (Springer, 2020), Dominant Language Constellations Approach in Education and Language Acquisition (Springer, 2021), and the forthcoming An Advanced Guide to Multilingualism (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).
