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Commentary published In: Multilingual education or How to learn to teach multilingual learning:
Edited by Eva Vetter and Nikolay Slavkov
[AILA Review 35:1] 2022
► pp. 152–168

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Commentary

Emerging trends in multilingual learning and teaching

Beyond edges and borders

 | Oranim Academic College of Education
 | North-West University
Published online: 27 September 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.00053.aro
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 2.Emerging trends in multilingual learning and teaching
  • 3.What do multilinguals and monolinguals have in common with coasts, mountains, forests and grasslands?
    • 3.1Edges, borders and boundaries
      • 3.1.1What can applied linguistics research appropriate from philosophy research?
      • 3.1.2What can applied linguists and educational practitioners learn from the natural sciences to re-imagine multilingual teaching and learning?
    • 3.2Beyond a metaphor, through the interdisciplinarity of knowledge to the practice of multilingual teaching
  • 4.Conclusion
  • References
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