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"English as a global lingua franca interacts with other languages across a wide range of multilingual contexts. Combining insights from linguistics, education studies, and psychology, this book addresses the role of English within the current linguistic dynamics of globalization. It takes Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai as case studies to illustrate the use of English in different multilingual urban areas, arguing that these are places where competing historical assessments, and ideological conceptions of monolingualism and multilingualism, are being acted out most forcefully. It critically appraises the controversial concept of multilingual advantages, and studies multilingual cross-linguistic influence in relation to learning English in bilingual heritage contexts. It also scrutinises multilingual language policies in their impact on attitudes, identities, and investment into languages. Engaging and accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and advanced students of bi- and multilingualism, globalization, linguistic diversity, World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and second/third language acquisition"--

English as a global lingua franca interacts with other languages across a wide range of multilingual contexts. Combining insights from linguistics, education studies, and psychology, this book addresses the role of English within the current linguistic dynamics of globalization. It takes Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai as case studies to illustrate the use of English in different multilingual urban areas, arguing that these are places where competing historical assessments, and ideological conceptions of monolingualism and multilingualism, are being acted out most forcefully. It critically appraises the controversial concept of multilingual advantages, and studies multilingual cross-linguistic influence in relation to learning English in bilingual heritage contexts. It also scrutinises multilingual language policies in their impact on attitudes, identities, and investment into languages. Engaging and accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and advanced students of bi- and multilingualism, globalization, linguistic diversity, World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and second/third language acquisition.

Because of the power and international status of English, and because of real or perceived pressures to 'assimilate' persons from non-English speaking cultural backgrounds, educators in English-dominant countries are likely to have a primary focus on the academic achievement of learners based on monolingual (English) standards and benchmarks. 'Success' in educational contexts is likely to reflect the common sense view "the more English, as early as possible, the better the outcome", which, while intuitively logical, is not supported by the best available research on the acquisition of English

"This volume sets out to investigate the linguistic ecologies of Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai, with chapters that combine empirical and theoretical approaches to the sociolinguistics of multilingualism. One important feature of this publication is that that the five parts of the collection deal with such key issues as the historical dimension, language policies and language planning, contemporary societal multilingualism, multilingual language acquisition, and the localized Englishes of global cities. The first four sections of the volume provide a multi-levelled and finely-detailed description of multilingual diversity of three global cities, while the final section discusses postcolonial Englishes in the context of multilingual language acquisition and language contact"--

Multilingualism and foreign language education: A synthesis of linguistic and educational findings / Andreas Bonnet and Peter Siemund -- Language education in and for a multilingual Europe / Michael Byram -- Multilingualism and education in sub-Saharan Africa: Policies, practices and implications / Feliciano Chimbutane -- Language policy, language study, and heritage language education in the U.S / Kendall A. King, Mengying Liu and María Cecilia Schwedhelm -- Globalization, national identity, and multiculturalism and multilingualism: Language policy and practice in education in Asian countries / Wenyang Sun and Xue Lan Rong -- L3, the tertiary language / Björn Hammarberg -- Plurilingual identitites: On the way to an integrative view on language education? / Adelheid Hu -- Models of multilingual competence / Britta Hufeisen -- The multilingual turn in foreign language education: Facts and fallacies / Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer -- Linguistic landscaping / Sebastian Muth -- Identity and investment in multilingual classrooms / Bonny Norton -- The acquisition of English as an L3 from a sociocultural point of view: The perspective of multilingual learners / Andreas Bonnet, Larissa Jacob, Annika Schäfer and Torben Schmidt -- Affordances of multilingual learning situations: Possibilities and constraints for foreign language classrooms / Judith Buendgens-Kosten and Daniela Elsner -- L1 effects in the early L3 acquisition of vocabulary and grammar / Holger Hopp, Teresa Kieseier, Markus Vogelbacher and Dieter Thoma -- "One day a father and his son going fishing on the Lake": A study on the use of the progressive aspect of monolingual and bilingual learners of English / Eliane Lorenz -- English as a lingua franca at the multilingual university: A comparison of monolingually and multilingually raised students and instructors / Jessica Terese Mueller -- Learning English demonstrative pronouns on bilingual substrate: Evidence from German heritage speakers of Russian, Turkish, and Vietnamese / Peter Siemund, Stefanie Schröter and Sharareh Rahbari

This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives - notably those of language typology, diachronic linguistics, language acquisition and translation studies; and to describe, explain, and elaborate on universal constraints on language contact. The individual chapters offer systematic comparisons of a wealth of contact situations and the book as a whole makes a valuable contribution to deepening

This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives – notably those of language typology, diachronic linguistics, language acquisition and translation studies; and to describe, explain, and elaborate on universal constraints on language contact. The individual chapters offer systematic comparisons of a wealth of contact situations and the book as a whole makes a valuable contribution to deepening our understanding of contact-induced language change. With its broad approach, this work will be welcomed by scholars of many different persuasions.

Die . Kapitel dieses Berichts widmen sich den vier Teilprojekten der Pilotstudie. In Kapitel 2 wird zunächst das Teilprojekt 1 "Die Sprachen der Wissenschaft: Eine Pilotstudie zur forschenden Reflexion über Mehrsprachigkeit am Beispiel Nachhaltigkeitsforschung" vorgestellt, das der Dimension der Wissenschaftsreflexion im Nachhaltigkeitskonzept der Universität entspricht. [.] Kapitel 3 stellt das Teilprojekt 2 dar: "Mehrsprachigkeit in der Medizin - Eine Pilotstudie zu Bedarfen, Ressourcen und Praktiken hinsichtlich der Mehrsprachigkeit im Krankenhaus", das der Säule "Forschung" im Nachhaltigkeitskonzept der Universität zuzuordnen ist. [.] Das dritte Teilprojekt, welches im Kapitel 4 dieses Berichts vorgestellt wird, widmete sich der Sprachen der universitären Lehre. Unter dem Titel "Die Sprachen der Lehre: English in the Multilingual University" wurden die Annahmen untersucht, dass mehrsprachig Erzogene über ein ausdifferenzierteres sprachliches Repertoire sowie ein ausgeprägtes Sprachbewusstsein verfügen, die sich bei der Verwendung vom Englischen als Lingua franca als vorteilhaft erweisen. Darüber hinaus wurden explorativ Einstellungen zum Gebrauch von sowie Lernmotivationen in Bezug auf Englisch (als Lingua franca), Deutsch (als Fremdsprache) sowie weitere Fremdsprachen erhoben. [.] Kapitel 5 widmet sich dem Teilprojekt "Die Sprachen des Campus: Mehrsprachigkeit als Ressource nachhaltiger Governance". Ziel dieses Projekts ist es, Erkenntnisse über Mehrsprachigkeit in der Universitätsadministration zu gewinnen. (DIPF/Orig.)