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- Migration and linguistic diversity in education, evaluation of innovative school programs
- Multilingualism and education, multilingual development

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- Intercultural communication, language learning
- Multilingualism, bilingual education

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- Applied linguistics, multilingual development
- Complex dynamic systems theory, and language policy in higher education

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- Pluralistic approaches to teaching and learning of (foreign) languages
- Visual methods in teaching, learning and research

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- Multilingualism in education
- Teachers’ professional development

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- Role of language in teaching and learning science
- Nature of Science and Science Media Literacy

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- Multilingualism In Schools and Higher Education
- Intercultural Communication and Understanding

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- Teaching and learning multiple languages
- Multilingualism in early childhood education

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- Teaching and researching linguistic diversity from the critical perspectives with a particular focus on China’s regional integration and global expansion
- Directing the Center for Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics of Yunnan University

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- Global Mental Health
- Multilingualism and Health

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- Research methodology
- Interdisciplinary research on linguistic diversity and social participation

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- Multilingualism in education
- Applied linguistics

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- Language policy and planning
- Language teaching and learning

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- Bilingual/Multilingual education
- Second language acquisition

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- Sociolinguistics of multilingualism and migration
- Heritage language maintenance

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- Medium of instruction in multilingual settings
- Multilingualism and new media

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- Heritage Languages
- Language and Well-being

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- Impact of difference associated with communication at work, including nuanced dimensions of humour
- Imbalance in emphasis between the teaching of written and verbal language competency for work

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- My teaching and research seeks to raise language awareness amongst education professionals working in multilingual environments.
- Research interests include teacher knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about languages and language, home-school educational partnerships and plurilingual and intercultural education in the school context.

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- Translanguaging and social cognition
- Multiligualism

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- Digital language and communication research, including multilingualism online
- Linguistic landscape research

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- Engaging in sociolinguistic research exploring intersections of Global South and Global North language ideologies and practices in globalized accounting practice,missionary work, and other intercultural contexts
- Convening units in English language studies, including issues and perspectives in English across professions, English language systems, and intercultural communication

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- Interactions in healthcare settings, with a particular focus on topics relating to linguistic diversity
- Links between language learning, motivation and identity

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- Urban multilingualism
- Language learning in multilingual digital environments

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- Fairness, justice, and equity in language assessment
- Inclusivity in emergent multilingual education

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- Multilingualism and (multimodal) language contact, esp. involving minoritized languages
- Linguistic epistemology and research methodology in sociolinguistics

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- Economics of labour and family policy
- Gender perspective on language (usage) and economic outcomes
- Project: Money Matters - Ein Comic Essay über Geld
- Project: CULTIMA - Zum Einfluss von Kultur auf die Integration von Migrant*innen: Sozialökonomische Meta-Analyse der epidemiologischen Forschung

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- English language teaching with special focus on multilingual background
- Heritage language maintenance
- Multilingual and multicultural education
Research associates

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- Interdisciplinary and international research management and coordination
- Language policy, minority languages, multilingualism

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- Research management and coordination of the Profilinitiative and research centre LiDS, an interdisciplinary research cooperation and international network.
- Developmental psychology (peer relationships) and clinical psychology (aggressive behavior in children)

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- Research on multilingualism in education (adult education; schools) and work settings; elite multilingualism; language policy; minority languages
- Ethnography; Critical Discourse Studies; Language Ideologies; Language Work

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- Project: Investigating pre-service English language teachers’ professional knowledge on teaching in linguistically diverse classes
- Research interests: Multilingualism, teacher professional knowledge and professional development, use of technology in education, curriculum development and evaluation

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- Educational and sociolinguistic aspects of multilingualism in higher education
- Language policy and planning

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- Students’ and student teachers’ sense of belonging to science
- The role of language in science education

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- Arabic second language acquisition
- Language Education Policies in the Arab World

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- Raciolinguistics
- Subjectivation

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- Multilingual Literacy
- Equality in Education

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- Multilingualism of people growing up in families with migration backgrounds
- Family language policy and language maintenance

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- Multilingualism in children and adolescents
- Adolescents’ emotional well-being and (language) performance

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- Researcher in language and migration, multilingual families and applied sociolinguistics
- Lecturer in second language teaching and learning

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- Multilingualism
- Educational linguistics

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- Migration related language diversity
- Peer relations and friendships in adolescence

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- Family language policy
- Parental strategies in multilingual families

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- Investigating communication in the provision of legal advice and assistance within migration processes
- Promoting the incorporation of (socio)linguistic knowledge and approaches within legal research and practice

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- Researching multilingual government communication in Australia, especially Covid-19 communications.
- Researching state involvement in Aboriginal language renewal.

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- Third language learning
- Portfolio assessment for plurilingual learners

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- Language education for newly arrived migrant children
- Effective curriculum and instructional strategies in low-resource contexts

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- Learners’ language development
- Complex Dynamic Systems Theory

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- Pedagogical translanguaging
- Language-in-education planning and LOTE learning

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- Multilingual pedagogies
- Translanguaging

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- Bilingual Emergent Language and Literacy Skills
- Hearing Loss and Language Development

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- Language education in linguistically diverse contexts
- Teacher education and professional development in the context of linguistic diversity

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- Multilingualism and English language proficiency in internationalized higher education
- Linguistic inclusivity in education

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- Sociolinguistics of translation and interpreting
- Intercultural communication

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- Researcher in applied sociolinguistics, migrants’ language learning and testing, multilingualism, raciolinguistic and securitization
- Muslim women as speakers of English

- Multiliteracy
- Language proficiencies as a human capital investment

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- English Medium Instruction, language policy and practice
- Academic discourse, literacy and scholarly publication

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- Multiliteracy
- Language proficiencies as a human capital investment

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- Language skills in the labour market

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- Mediation and multilingualism
- Beliefs and teacher professionalization

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- English as a lingua franca in the family
- Multilingualism

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- Queer pedagogy in language and literacy education
- English medium instruction; heritage language learning and identity negotiations

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- Multilingualism in Sociolinguistics
- English medium instruction in higher education

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- PhD in Sociolinguistics (Bi/Multilingualism and language education), School of Early Childhood Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. PhD Thesis: "Issues of bilingualism in preschool and school-age children: Social and educational dimensions" (2007-2012)
- Research experience and publications in the field of language contact, multi/plurilingualism and education, heritage languages, language ideologies and identities, teaching among migrant and refugee background students, multilingual/inclusive education, teacher training

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- Student beliefs about linguistic diversity
- Transnational virtual exchange in schools

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- Language assessment and evaluation
- Pedagogical translanguaging

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- Multilingualism, bilingual education, language policy and practice.
- Researching home language maintenance and bilingual parenting in monolingual contexts.

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- Project: Doing comparative study on the translanguaging practices in Bangladeshi and German EFL classrooms
- Research Interests: Translanguaging in EFL classroom, Bi/Multilingualism and language education, Technology in ELT

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- Multilingualism on the labor market
- Returns on migrant care workers’ multilingual competence

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- Communication in multilingual healthcare
- Second language teaching and learning

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- Language skills in the labour market
- Multilingualism & Language policy

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- Multilingualism and language policy
- Gender and age effects on sign language

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- Global mental health and diversity in healthcare and education
- Multilingualism in (mental) health and community/public service interpreting
Other

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- Supporting emergent bilingual and multilingual pupils in educational settings & fostering home-school partnerships
- Teacher knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about multilingualism