Interdisciplinary Research Approaches to Multilingual Education

Vasilia Kourtis–Kazoullis is an associate professor at the Department of Primary Education at the University of the Aegean, Greece.Themistoklis Aravossitas teaches Modern Greek Language and Culture at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada, and teaches at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, Canada.Eleni Skourtou is a professor at the Department of Primary Education at the University of the Aegean, Greece.Peter Pericles Trifonas is a professor at the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE, University of Toronto, Canada.

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• Part A: Educational Programs and Policies 1. Linguistic Rights and Educational Policies: Aspects of Minority Language Education in Europe 2. Building a Multilingual Learning Community: Educational Partnerships with Parents in a Multilingual Preschool in Iceland 3. Case Study Research on the Less Known Multilingual Educational Program of Val d’ Aran in Catalonia, Spain: Students' Attitudes 4. Diversity in Language Teaching and Democratization of Education: A Critical Approach Part B: Teaching and Learning 5. Non-verbal Communication in Wordless Comics 6. Plurilingualism in Linguistically Diverse Language Classrooms: Respecting and Validating Student Identity 7. Factors Affecting, and Methods to Improve, the Language Development of EAL Learners 8. Conversations Within: Journal writing as an Alternative Form of Exploration in Foreign Language Pedagogy 9. Lived Experiences among Learners of Chinese Origin in Complementary Schools in Spain 10. Stories, Second Language Writers and Genre Awareness Part C: Linguistic Diversity 11. Identity vs. Diversity: Issues on recognition, ‘management’ and acceptance of diversity 12. Evolution in Terms of Theoretical Conceptualization of Translanguaging in Applied Linguistics: The Example of Greek and French Language Classrooms 13. Language Diversity in Three Italian Communities in The UΚ:Heritage Languages and Code Switching 14. Acquisition of Grammatical Phenomena in French as a Foreign Language 15. Is Translanguaging a Possibility in a Language Class? Theoretical Issues and Applications in an EFL Class Part D: ICT and Language Learning 16. Virtual Museums of Music and Ballet in Foreign Language Education 17. Exploring Computer-Mediated Second Language Oral Proficiency Testing 18. Augmented Reality-Based Creation of Comics in Primary Education 19. Developing Pedagogically Meaningful Learning Objects for Foreign Language Education 20. Blogging to Develop Writing Skills in a Greek Secondary EFL Classroom 21. Computer-Based Educational Program: Developing E-learning Skills within German Language Training for Specific Purposes