This edited volume unpacks the familiar concepts of language, literacy and learning, and promotes dialogue and bridge building within and across these concepts. Its specific interest lies in bridging the gap between Literacy Studies (or New Literacy Studies), on the one hand, and SLA and scholarship in learning in multilingual contexts, on the other. The chapters in the volume center-stage empirical analysis, and each addresses gaps in the scholarship between the two domains. The volume addresses the need to engage with the concepts, categorizations and boundaries that pertain to language, literacy and learning. This need is especially felt in our globalized society, which is characterized by constant, fast and unpredictable mobility of people, goods, ideas and values.
The editors of this volume are founding members of the Nordic Network LLL (Language, Literacy and Learning). They have initiated a string of workshops and have discussed this theme at Nordic meetings and at symposia at international conferences.

Presents current original research that bridges the gap between the domains of Literacy Studies and SLA, and learning in multilingual sites Chapters represent different domains and disciplines, while center-staging empirical analysis Discusses methodological and conceptual issues relevant to present day diversification, virtual and physical mobility

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Bridging Language, Literacy and Learning; Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Helle Pia Laursen and Anne Golden.- Part I: Learning and Boundaries.- Young People's Emerging Multilingual Practices: Learning Language or Literacy, or Both? Anne Pitkänen-Huhta.- The Anatomy of Learning a Foreign Language in a Classroom with a Textbook: An Interactional and Multimodal Approach; Augustin Lefebvre.- No, I'm not reading: How Two Language Learners Enact their Investments by Crossing and Blurring the Boundaries of Literacy and Orality; Johanna Ennser-Kananen.- Learn ing Languag ing Matters: Contributions to a Turn-on-turn Reflexivity; Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta.- Part II: Examining Different Constructed Connections.- An Odd Couple? Literacy and Multilingualism in Day Care Centers; Lars Holm.- Treading Semiotic Paths in Multilingual Literacy Learning: Challenging Ideological Conceptualizations of Language and Literacy in Education; Helle Pia Laursen.- Making it your own by adapting it to what's important to you: Plurilingual Critical Literacies to Promote L2 Japanese Users' Sense of Ownership of Japanese; Noriko Iwasaki and Yuri Kumagai.- Part III: Navigating New Linguistic Resources.- Adjustment and Autonomy in Novice Second Language Writing: Reconceptualizing Voice in Language Learning; Ingri Dommersnes Jølbo.- Rhizomes in Action: International Multilingual Student Writers' Literacies; Maria Prikhodko.- Visual Representations of English Language Learning and Literacy in Greece; Anastasia Rothoni and Bessie Mitsikopoulou.- Language Learning and Literacy: The Multilingual Subject in Narratives of Older Immigrant Refugee Women; Anne Golden and Elisabeth Lanza.