This document provides an overview of the contents of a book titled "The Many Faces of Multilingualism". The book contains 13 chapters contributed by various authors and is divided into two parts. Part I focuses on sociolinguistic aspects of multilingualism and includes chapters on minority languages in Poland's education system, language contact and maintenance of Guarani in Brazil, heritage language socialization of a Mexican family in Canada, and code alternation among multilingual speakers. Part II examines pedagogical aspects of multilingualism with chapters on identity and language proficiency for study abroad students, influence of first languages on pragmatics learning, curriculum reform in Latvia, and pluralistic approaches in foreign language education in Malta.

2. The Many Faces of Multilingualism

3. Trends in Applied Linguistics
Edited by
Ulrike Jessner
Volume 33

4. The Many Faces of
Multilingualism
Language Status, Learning and Use Across Contexts
Edited by
Piotr Romanowski
Martin Guardado

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6. Contents
Notes on contributors VII
Li Wei
Foreword: Multilingualism in Context XI
Piotr Romanowski
Chapter 1
Introduction: The Many Faces of Multilingualism 1
Part I: (Socio)Linguistic Aspects of Multilingualism
Piotr Romanowski
Chapter 2
The Polish Linguistic Map: An Overview of Minority Languages in the
Education System 11
Edenize Ponzo Peres, Kyria Rebeca Finardi and Poliana Claudiano
Calazans
Chapter 3
Language Contact, Maintenance and Conflict: The Case of the Guarani
Language in Brazil 25
Martin Guardado
Chapter 4
“My Gain Would Have Been Their Loss”: Key Factors in the Heritage
Language Socialization and Policies of a Middle-class Mexican Family in
Canada 39
Hiroki Hanamoto
Chapter 5
Gesture Sequences and Turn-taking Strategies in Communication
Settings in the Multilingual Philippines 63
Anna Khalizova
Chapter 6
The Phenomenon of Code Alternation by Multilingual Speakers 85

7. Part II: Pedagogical Aspects of Multilingualism
Asunción Martínez-Arbelaiz, Isabel Pereira
Chapter 7
Identity and Language Proficiency in Study Abroad: A Case Study of Four
Multilingual and Multicultural Students 109
Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak
Chapter 8
The Influence of the Mother Tongue and L3 on Learning Pragmatics in
EFL among Poles 127
Vita Kalnbērziņa
Chapter 9
Curriculum Reform in Latvia: A Move from Multilingual to Plurilingual
Education 145
Antoinette Camilleri Grima
Chapter 10
Pluralistic Approaches in Foreign Language Education: Examples of
Implementation from Malta 163
Natalia Barranco-Izquierdo, M. Teresa Calderón-Quindós
Chapter 11
Interlingual Education in the Classroom: An Action Guide to Overcoming
Communication Conflicts 187
Vimbai Mbirimi-Hungwe
Chapter 12
Transcending Linguistic Boundaries in Higher Education Pedagogy: The
Role of Translanguaging and Lecturers 207
Martin Guardado
Chapter 13
Bringing it all Together: Multilingualism in Family, Society and
Education 223
Subject Index 233
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8. Notes on contributors
Natalia Barranco Izquierdo has a PhD in Didactics of Language and Literature and is currently
teaching at the School of Education and Social Work of the University of Valladolid, Spain. Her
main research interests are methods of teaching and learning English as a foreign language
and early acquisition of a foreign language. She has published several papers on mediation
as a communication language activity and early foreign language teaching.
Poliana Claudiano Calazans is a High School Language professor and coordinator in the
Guarapari, ES, Brazil. She has a PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
with research on indigenous languages. In 2019, she participated in a training by Capes at
Fanshawe College in Canada.
María Teresa Calderón Quindós is Associate Professor of English at the University of Valladolid,
teaching General English at the School of Education and Social Work. In 2005 she was awarded
by AESLA (Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics) for her work on Cognitive Poetics. Her
most relevant work in the field appears in Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, John Benjamins
(2005). She has also done research in English literature and foreign language education.
Antoinette Camilleri Grima is full professor of applied linguistics at the University of Malta. She
teaches language pedagogy and she has published several books and articles in internationally
refereed journals on intercultural competence, educational sociolinguistics, learner autonomy
and bilingual education. She has authored two radio series in Maltese as a foreign language,
and has coordinated a number of Council of Europe workshops in the area of modern
languages.
Kyria Rebeca Finardi is a professor in the Department of Languages, Culture and Education
(DLCE) and a researcher in the post-graduate programs of Education (PPGE) and Linguistics
(PPGEL) of the Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES). She is also the former President of the
Brazilian Association of Applied Linguistics (ALAB).
Martin Guardado is a Professor of applied linguistics and sociolinguistics at the University of
Alberta. He obtained his PhD from the University of British Columbia specializing in language
education and heritage language socialization. Additional active research includes EAP, TESL,
TBLT, interlingual family language policies, and Náhuat Pipil Indigenous language revitalization
in El Salvador.
Hiroki Hanamoto holds a PhD in Sociolinguistics awarded by Kansai University, Japan. He is
Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Engineering at Tokyo Denki University. He
mainly researches issues related to multimodal interaction using interactional resources such
as gesture and embodied action in English as a lingua franca (ELF) contexts. He has published
articles in international journals and written book chapters in various areas of ELF interactions.
Vita Kalnbērziņa obtained her PhD from Lancaster University, UK. She presently holds an
Associate Professor’s position at the University of Latvia and works as a curriculum and
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9. examination expert at the Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia. Her main interests
are language acquisition, language testing and intercultural communication.
Anna Khalizova studied German, English, Spanish languages, literature and pedagogy at
Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU). After graduation, she started her PhD project at
Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany, and she completed it in 2017. She was a
DAAD-scholarship holder at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She worked as a research
assistant at the University of Freiburg. Presently, she is a research assistant at the
University of Koblenz-Landau and Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research interests are
multilingualism, intercultural communication, conversation analysis, multimodal analysis,
language didactics, German as a second/foreign language.
Asunción Martínez Arbelaiz has been the language coordinator for University Studies Abroad
Consortium since 2001, where she designs, administers and assesses different courses of
Spanish as an additional language. She also teaches in the European Master in Multilingualism
and Education and is part of the research group Elkarrikertuz, both at the University of the
Basque Country, Spain.
Vimbai Mbirimi-Hungwe is a lecturer in the Department of Language Proficiency at the Sefako
Makgatho University of Health Sciences in South Africa. She has just completed her PhD. Her
research focuses on the use of translanguaging, reading comprehension and collaborative
learning at the tertiary level. She is an upcoming researcher who has contributed with two
book chapters and a few peer-reviewed journal articles.
Isabel Pereira received a PhD in SLA from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign,
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, in 1996. She works as Assistant Director of
NYU Madrid in charge of the language program, and she teaches Spanish at different levels.
Her areas of interest include curricular development and second language research as well
as second language acquisition and language pedagogy in study abroad.
Edenize Ponzo Peres, is a professor of the Department of Languages and in the Post Graduate
Program of Linguistics (PPGEL) of the Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brazil.
She is currently pursuing her second PhD with research on indigenous and heritage languages
and communities at the Catholic University of Minas Gerais.
Piotr Romanowski holds a PhD in Linguistics. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of
Applied Linguistics, the University of Warsaw. His main research interests include bilingual
and multilingual education, sociolinguistics, and foreign language teaching and learning. He
is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices (Equinox Publishing),
and the founding member of MultiLingNet. He has authored over forty papers, one monograph
and co-edited five other volumes. He has guest lectured in the UK, the USA, Canada, Brazil,
Chile, Taiwan, South Africa, New Zealand.
Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak is Associate Professor at the School of Languages and Literatures
at Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznań, Poland and the Deputy Editor in Chief for
Glottodidactica. An International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Anna’s main research
interests are within the field of applied linguistics, particularly interlanguage pragmatics
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10. and teaching-oriented studies of hate speech. She is the author of three books, the co-editor of
six monographs, and the author of more than fifty scholarly papers. In years 2014–2016, she
conducted research and training activities in a project financed by the European Commission
titled RADAR (Regulating Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Racism). In 2019, she received the AMU
Rector’s award for outstanding academic achievements.
Notes on contributors IX