International Research on Multilingualism: Breaking with the Monolingual Perspective

Introduction: Advances in the Study of Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism; Eva Vetter, Ulrike Jessner.- PART I: CONCEPTS.- Dominant Language Constellation as a Method of Research; Larissa Aronin.- Business as Usual? (Re)conceptualizations and the Multilingual Turn in Education. The Case of Mother Tongue; Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer.- 'Germination' Factors of Destination Language Learning; Aloysius N. Conduah.- Communicative Competence in the Context of Increasing Diversity in South Tyrolean Schools; Maria Stopfner, Dana Engel.- PART II: TRANSFER PHENOMENA.- Differences in the Acquisition and Production of English as a Foreign Language: a Study of Bilingual and Monolingual Students in Germany; Eliane Lorenz, Peter Siemund.- Investigating Positive Lexical Transfer from English (L2) to German (L3) by Quebec Francophones; Nina Woll.- From Overhearing to Partial Immersion: L3 Acquisitionof Romanian in Three English-Hungarian-Speaking Siblings; Iulia Pittman.- How Multilingualism and Sociolinguistic Environment Influence Rear-Burden Usage in Basque: a Study on Bilingual and Trilingual University Students; Julian Maia-Larretxea, Garbiñe Bereziartua.- PART III: LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES.- Interlingual Learning of Romance Languages at Austrian Schools; Michaela Rückl.- Extending Oxford's (1990) Taxonomy for Multilingual Learners; Violetta Dmitrenko.- Sustaining Long-Term L2 and L3 Learning Motivation in a Monolingual Environment; Csilla Sárdi.- Tense and Aspect in L3 Interlanguage. The Effect of Lexical Aspect and Discourse Grounding on the Development of Tense and Aspect Marking in L3 Italian; Zuzana Toth.