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Welcome to this volume of selected papers from CCERBAL 2023!
This edition of the CCERBAL Conference took place on May 4–6, 2023, and focused on three distinct, yet interrelated themes: transversal skills, mobility, and well-being in bilingual and multilingual individuals or environments.
Transversality and the new research that is emerging on this topic have solid grounding in the idea of de-compartmentalizing languages, looking at them from new holistic perspectives, and placing them at the centre of learning, workplace interactions, sharing of knowledge, communicating effectively with others, or pursuing responsible citizenship and societal cohesion. The scale, complexity, multidirectionality, and intensity of people’s mobility in our era is unprecedented. This, of course, creates or amplifies multiple questions related to linguistic competences necessary to succeed and thrive in such a context, making the field of language teaching and learning more relevant than ever. The mobility theme also brings to the fore questions related to language, identity, policy, and power as well as the role of big lingua franca languages, such as English, versus the existence and survival of small, local languages in smaller or minority contexts. The well-being theme naturally intersects with the other two and brings positive psychology into the equation. Indeed, looking at how human beings flourish and thrive and relating that to language offers stimulating new avenues that have been explored in recent research and practice.
The articles included in this volume draw on diverse contexts and perspectives to further our knowledge and understanding of transversal skills, mobility, and well-being in bilingual and multilingual individuals or environments.
Guest editors: Pierre-Luc Paquet, Nikolay Slavkov, Nina Woll, Caroline Dault, Laura Ambrosio
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