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Multilingualism, Multimodality and the Future of Education Research

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Multilingualism and Multimodality

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The labels ‘post-modern condition’, ‘late modernity’, and ‘superdiversity’ (Vertovec 2007) are some of the terms used in the discourse of researchers in the social sciences and humanities to capture aspects of the transformations and new conditions evident in today’s developed societies. These transformations can be seen in a great many areas of social life but two examples suffice to give a glimpse of their extent.

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  1. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Ingrid de Saint-Georges

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  1. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Ingrid de Saint-Georges

  2. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Jean-Jacques Weber

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Saint-Georges, I.d. (2013). Multilingualism, Multimodality and the Future of Education Research. In: Saint-Georges, I.d., Weber, JJ. (eds) Multilingualism and Multimodality. The Future of Education Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-266-2_1

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