The multiple realities of multilingualism
Subtitle: personal narratives and researchers' perspectives
By: edited by Elka Todeva, Jasone Cenoz
Series: Trends in applied linguistics -- 3; Trends in applied linguistics -- 3.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9783110224474
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Multilingualism: emic and etic perspectives / Elka Todeva and Jasone Cenoz; title: A long, adventurous road to (im)perfection / Radmila Popovic; title: Multilingualism as a kaleidoscopic experience: the mini universes within / Elka Todeva; title: My ways to Rome : routes to multilingualism / Heike M.E. Tappe; title: Incomplete journeys: a quest for multilingualism / Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty; title: The joys and pitfalls of multiple language acquisition: the workings of the mind of a simultaneous multilingual / Chimwemwe Mayinde Mystic Kamanga; title: A life of learning languages / Sally Freedman; title: Linguistic cunning: from Burton to babelfish / Hamzah Henshaw; title: A 'new breed' of American? / Charles Kowalski; title: Where art and nature meet / Humphrey Tonkin; title: A multilingual journey from East to West / Haiyan Hu; title: Roots, branches and seeds / Neil O'Flaherty; title: Expanding languages, expanding worlds / Alvino E. Fantini; title: The Well and the bucket: the emic and etic perspectives combined / Jasone Cenoz and Elka Todeva.