Plurilingual Classroom Practices and Participation Analysing Interaction in Local and Translocal Settings

INTRODUCTION

Dolors Masats and Luci Nussbaum

1. Going out on a limb? Introducing a plurilingual perspective in a university business English subject

Josep Maria Cots

2. Plurilingual modes of interaction in English-medium university classes

Eulàlia Borràs and Luci Nussbaum

3. Creating a plurilingual space through talk-in-interaction

Dolors Masats and Artur Noguerol

PART II

Students as plurilingual teachers

4. Plurilingual practices and pluriliteracies in an after-school program: Encouraging children’s use of their entire repertoire for meaning making

Claudia Vallejo

5. Students as teachers, teacher as learner: Collaborative plurilingual teaching and learning in interaction

Júlia Llompart

6. Showing attention: student’s turn co-construction and other-initiated other-repair

Luci Nussbaum

PART III

Students as plurilingual sociolinguists

7. Building the sociolinguistic environment through talk-in-interaction

Viginia Unamuno

8. Doing ‘being sociolinguists’: Students’ envisagement of languages, varieties and uses

Dolors Masats

PART IV

Plurilingual and multimodal activities in knowledge construction

9. Plurilingual teamwork practices in an internationalised setting at a Catalan university

Eulàlia Borràs

10. Multimodality in English medium higher education

Joan Ploettner

11. "How do the apples reproduce?" Mediation-in-interaction in a university CLIL course

Emilee Moore

PART V

Plurilingual activities in computer mediated interaction

12. ‘Can you repeat please?’ Young learners’ emergent awareness and use of interactional repertoires in a telecollaborative exchange

Melinda Dooly

13. "What do you like about Spain?": Building understandings of people and places in interaction mediated by plurilingual and digital resources

Emilee Moore and Claudia Vallejo

PART VI

Plurilingualism in student’s international encounters

14. Professional language in automotive maintenance training: Translocal intercomprehension between students from Barcelona and Lyon

Víctor Corona

15. Interactional competence in transnational plurilingual peer interactions

Cèlia Pratginestòs

16. "Let's talk about el catalan's ;)": Student teachers’ use of plurilingual and plurimodal resources in WhatsApp interaction

Melinda Dooly and Anna Czura

Biography

Dolors Masats is a senior lecturer and researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has led various research projects at national level and published widely in the field of conversational analysis applied to language learning in multilingual and multicultural settings, including language awareness, task-based and project-based teaching and learning, technology-enhanced learning, video production and education for indigenous peoples.

Luci Nussbaum is an honorary professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she founded the Research Centre for Plurilingual Education & Interaction (GREIP). She has specialised in the study of oral interaction in multilingual language learning milieus from the perspectives of interactional sociolinguistics and conversational analysis and has led and participated in numerous research projects and research networks both at national and international level.