Plurilingual Classroom Practices and Participation

Dolors Masats is a senior lecturer and researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has led various research projects at national level and published widely in the field of conversational analysis applied to language learning in multilingual and multicultural settings, including language awareness, task-based and project-based teaching and learning, technology-enhanced learning, video production and education for indigenous peoples. Luci Nussbaum is an honorary professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she founded the Research Centre for Plurilingual Education & Interaction (GREIP). She has specialised in the study of oral interaction in multilingual language learning milieus from the perspectives of interactional sociolinguistics and conversational analysis and has led and participated in numerous research projects and research networks both at national and international level.

Part 1: Teachers Promoting Plurilingual Practices 1. Going out on a limb? Introducing a plurilingual perspective in a university business English subject 2. Plurilingual modes of interaction in English-medium university classes 3. Creating a plurilingual space through talk-in-interaction Part 2: Students as Plurilingual Teachers 4. Plurilingual practices and pluriliteracies in an after-school program: Encouraging children’s use of their entire repertoire for meaning making 5. Students as teachers, teacher as learner: Collaborative plurilingual teaching and learning in interaction 6. Showing attention: student’s turn co-construction and other-initiated other-repair Part 3: Students as Plurilingual Sociolinguists 7. Building the sociolinguistic environment through talk-in-interaction 8. Doing ‘being sociolinguists’: Students’ envisagement of languages, varieties and uses Part 4: Plurilingual and Multimodal Activities in Knowledge Construction 9. Plurilingual teamwork practices in an internationalised setting at a Catalan university 10. Multimodality in English medium higher education 11. "How do the apples reproduce?" Mediation-in-interaction in a university CLIL course Part 5: Plurilingual Activities in Computer Mediated Interaction 12. ‘Can you repeat please?’ Young learners’ emergent awareness and use of interactional repertoires in a telecollaborative exchange 13. "What do you like about Spain?": Building understandings of people and places in interaction mediated by plurilingual and digital resources Part 6: Plurilingualism in Student’s International Encounters 14. Professional language in automotive maintenance training: Translocal intercomprehension between students from Barcelona and Lyon 15. Interactional competence in transnational plurilingual peer interactions 16. "Let's talk about el catalan's ;)": Student teachers’ use of plurilingual and plurimodal resources in WhatsApp interaction