Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration

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Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Approaching migration, intercultural contact and language learning, Barbara Geraghty and Jean E Conacher Part 1: Migration and language contact 1. Migration and language management: The Jewish experience, Bernard Spolsky 2. Linguistic vitality and the Polish community in France, Vera Regan and Eweline Debaene 3. Language planners' cultural positioning strategies in joint negotiation of meaning, Patrick Studer Part 2: Language learning and cultural contact 4. Emergent new literacies and the mobile phone: Informal language learning, voice and identity in a South African township, Fie Velghe and Jan Blommaert 5. Attitudes towards and perceptions of English L2 acquisition among Polish migrants in Ireland, Agnieszka Skrzypek, Romana Kopeckova, Barbara Bidzinska and David Singleton 6. Face-to-face tandem language learning: A Zone of Proximal Development for intercultural competence?, Fionnuala Kennedy and Aine Furlong 7. E-portfolio self-assessment of intercultural communicative competence: Helping language learners to become autonomous intercultural speakers, Aleksandra Sudhershan Part 3: Migration and contact: Community and individual experience 8. Heterglossic becomings: Listening to and learning from our multiple voices, Julie Choi and David Nunan 9. The Catalan Nova Canco: Resistance and identity through song, Nuria Borrull 10. Wandering words: Reflections on ambivalent cultural belonging and the creative potential of linguistic multiplicity, Irmina van Niele Conclusion, Barbara Geraghty and Jean E Conacher Index