1st Edition
Mediation as Negotiation of Meanings, Plurilingualism and Language Education
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 and scenarios make language learning relevant to the learner, Johann
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 and Evdokia Karavas
CHAPTER 7: Mediation-in-interaction in computer-enhanced non-formal contexts for
learning English, Dolors Masats, Emilee Moore and Almudena Herrera
CHAPTER 8: Cross-linguistic mediation and linguistic hybridity, Maria
Stathopoulou
CHAPTER 9: Translation and mediation: From theoretical models to self-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 Hadzič
CHAPTER 12: Mediation as a means of negotiating difference in a multilingual
community: An educational intervention project, Thalia Dragona
Biography
Bessie Dendrinos is Professor Emerita at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and President of the European Civil Society Platform for Multilingualism (ECSPM).
