ABSTRACT
Large-scale immigration and unprecedented mobility in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are radically changing the global linguistic landscape. As a result, populations speaking languages other than dominant societal ones has become a widespread phenomenon in many regions of the world. Against this background of cultural and linguistic diversity, the chapters in this volume shed light on the teaching of non-dominant languages across a wide range of geographical sites: North and Latin America, Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Cambodia. All levels of schooling are included as the following languages are discussed: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Eastern and Western), Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, French, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Pasifika languages, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish. Within the confines of a single volume, only a fraction of geographical areas and languages can be covered, and our hope is that future volumes and research will make up for those we have not been able to include.
