Multilingualism is increasingly seen as a resource among researchers, educators and in society. Whereas positive beliefs about the benefits of multilingualism may foster increased motivation for language learning, little known students’ potential multilingual benefits. This study examined Norwegian secondary school students concerning role some individual differences these beliefs. The data con...

The present study investigates the dichotomous relationship between official language policies celebrating multilingualism in education on one hand, and practice field facing practical challenges concerning their students’ other hand (Cummins & Persad, 2014; Lundberg, 2019). Document analysis of LK20 focus groups teachers were used to investigate two research questions; 1) Which aspects are...

Russian Germans from Kazakhstan, or Russlanddeutsche, are ethnic who lived in Russia and later Kazakhstan before immigrating to Germany. Many representatives of the elder generation grew up speaking a German dialect known as different Standard German, regional variety Russian. Linguistic integration can still be difficult process for language is closely tied culture identity. However, with time...

Multilingualism, superdiversity, and the abundance of language contacts place new demands on teachers, who must consider each student’s linguistic biography, family policies, cultural practices in order to keep up with their growth a specific school vs. university subject. Many more languages are becoming pluricentric as they continue be used migrating populations. So, decline or flourish diasp...