Multilingualism Second Language Learning & Gender

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the study of second language learning, multilingualism and gender. An impressive array of papers situated within a feminist poststructuralist framework demonstrates how this framework allows for a deeper understanding of second language learning, a number of language contact phenomena, intercultural communication, and critical language pedagogy. The volume has wide appeal to students and scholars in the fields of language and gender, sociolinguistics, SLA, anthropology, and language education.

Adrian Blackledge (Ph.D. Birmingham University, 1998) is Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Research at the University of Birmingham, Westhill Susan Ehrlich is Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics and Women's Studies at York University, Toronto Tara Goldstein is Associate Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto Monica Heller is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies and the Centre de recherches en education franco-ontarienne at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) Claire Kramsch is Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition at the University of California, Berkeley Cheiron McMahill is Associate Professor of English communication at Gunma Prefectural Women's University Yumiko Ohara recently received her Ph.D. from the University of Hawai'i and is currently working as a visiting foreign researcher at the National Language Research Institute in Japan Aneta Pavlenko (Ph.D. Cornell University, 1997) is Assistant Professor of TESOL and Director of the International Teaching Assistant program at Temple University, Philadelphia Ingrid Piller (Ph.D. Dresden, 1995) is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney Marya Teutsch-Dwyer (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1995) is Associate Professor in the English Department and Director of the Intensive English Center at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota Linda von Hoene is Director of the Graduate Student Instructor Teaching and Resource Center at the University of California, Berkeley