Autorentext

Bessie Dendrinos is Professor Emerita at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and President of the European Civil Society Platform for Multilingualism (ECSPM).

Klappentext

Bringing together the voices of a diverse group of scholars and language professionals, this edited collection, concerned with the cultivation of plurilingualism in multilingual educational settings, builds on the theory and practice of linguistic and cultural mediation both as curricular content and social practice.

Inhalt

PREFACE The editor

CHAPTER 1: Introduction and critical review the key concepts in this volume:

mediation and plurilingualism, Bessie Dendrinos

CHAPTER 2: Mediation for plurilingual competence: synergies and implications,

Enrica Piccardo

CHAPTER 3: Developing an action-oriented perspective on mediation: The new

CEFRCV descriptors, Brian North

CHAPTER 4: Developing Mediation Skills at University Language Centres: How

meaningful tasks make language learning relevant to the learner, Johan

Fischer

CHAPTER 5: Mediation as a test format in German high-stakes school-leaving

exams, Elisabeth Kolb

CHAPTER 6: Conceptualisation and operationalisation of linguistic mediation as a

testing construct: A case study, Bessie Dendrinos & Evdokia Karavas

CHAPTER 7: Mediation-in-interaction in computer-enhanced non-formal contexts for

learning English, Dolors Masats, Emilee Moore & Almudena Herrera

CHAPTER 8: Cross-Linguistic Mediation and Linguistic Hybridity, Maria

Stathopoulou

CHAPTER 9: Translation and Mediation: From Theoretical Models to Self[1]Awareness and Pedagogy, Loredana Polezzi

CHAPTER 10: Mediated interactions between teachers and immigrant parents, Claudio

Baraldi

CHAPTER 11: Bi-/multilingual youths' mediation practices in daily life. Lessons to be

learned, Elvira Hadzi

CHAPTER 12: Mediation as a means of negotiating difference in a multilingual

community: An educational intervention project, Thalia Dragona