Vol. 114 in the Bilingual education & bilingualism series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Recent developments in education, such as the increasing linguistic diversity in school populations and the digital revolution which has led to new ways of being, learning and socialising, have brought about fresh challenges and opportunities. In response, this book shows how technology enriches multilingual language learning, as well as how multilingual practices enrich computer assisted language learning (CALL) by bringing together two, thus far distinct, fields of research: CALL and multilingual approaches to language learning. The collection includes contributions from researchers and practitioners from three continents to illustrate how native languages, previously studied languages, heritage languages or dialects are activated through technology in formal and informal learning situations. The studies in this book showcase multilingual language use in chat rooms, computer games, digital stories, ebook apps, online texts and telecollaboration/virtual exchange via interactive whiteboards. This volume will be of interest to researchers interested in language learning and teaching and to practitioners looking for support in seizing the opportunities presented by the multilingual, digital classroom." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS:

Contributors

Multilingual CALL: Introduction / Judith Buendgens-Kosten and Daniela Elsner

PART 1: Multiliteracies and MCALL

1. The Multiple Languages of Digital Communication / Wolfgang Hallet

2. Learnscaping: Creating Next-Gen Learning Environments for Pluriliteracies Growth / Oliver Meye, Do Cyle and Kevin Schuck

PART 2: Multilingual Texts

'I like the character, weil er so richtig funny ist': Reading Story Apps in the Primary EFL Classroom / Sonja Brunsmeier and Annika Kolb

4. Awareness of Multilingual Resources: EFL Primary Students' Receptive Code-Switching during Collaborative Reading / Daniela Elsner and Judith Buendgens-Kosten

5. This is How I Say It! Discourse with Tablets among Multilingual Learners / Henriette Dausend

Über die Grenzen des einsprachigen Habitus: Application of Computer Assisted Language Learning through Home Language Content in Secondary Level Classrooms / John Michael Alvarez

7. Playful Plurilingualism? Exploring Language(s) with the Multilingual Serious Game MElang-E / Judith Buendgens-Kosten and Daniela Elsner

PART 3: Intercomprehension and CALL

8. (A) CALL for Slavic Intercomprehension: The Promotion of Minority Languages in the Modern Foreign Language Classroom / Manuela Pohl

9. When Non-Romance Languages Break the Linguistic Contract in Romance Languages Chat Rooms: Theoretical Consequences for Studies on Intercomprehension / Silvia Melo-Pfeifer

PART 4: Multilingual Online Exchange and Telecollaboration

10. Developing Plurilingual Competence in the EFL Primary Classroom through Telecollaboration / Euline Cutrim Schmid

11. Advanced Language Learners as Autonomous Language Users on Facebook / Antonie Alm

PART 5: MCALL and Professional Development of Teachers

12. Multilingual Digital Translanguaging and Storying with New Zealand Pasifika Learners / Rae Si‘ilata

13. The Use of Teacher Trainees' Own and Peer Videos for the Introduction of Multilingual-Sensitive Teaching Approaches in Pre-Service Teacher Training Classes / Heike Niesen

Concluding Remarks

Learning in Multilingually and Digitally Mediated Spaces: The MCALL Approach / Gabriela Meier