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This book responds to a growing body of work in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics that places an emphasis on situated descriptions of language education practices and illuminates how these descriptions are enmeshed with local, institutional and wider social forces. It engages with new ways of understanding language that expand its meaning by including other semiotic resources and meaning-making practices and bring to the fore its messiness and unpredictability. The chapters illustrate how a translingual and transcultural orientation to language and language pedagogy can provide a point of entry to reimagining what language education might look like under conditions of heightened linguistic and cultural diversity and increased linguistic and social inequalities. The book unites an international group of contributors, presenting state-of-the-art empirical studies drawing on a wide range of local contexts and spaces, from linguistically and culturally heterogeneous mainstream and HE classrooms to complementary (community) school and informal language learning contexts.

Vally Lytra is Reader in Languages in Education and Head of the MPhil/PhD Programme in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her research interests include multilingualism, community and minority languages education and inclusive language pedagogies.

Cristina Ros i Solé is Lecturer in Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her current research focus is situated at the interface between language, identity and material culture where she investigates the relationship between multilingual speakers’ ordinary collections and their identities.

Jim Anderson is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His work focuses on theories and methods of second language learning and bilingualism, multilingualism and new literacies, and language policy.

Vicky Macleroy is Reader in Education and Head of the Centre for Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her research interests focus on language development and multilingualism, multiliteracies and digital storytelling, and transformative pedagogy.