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This volume introduces the reader to ongoing research on the study of biliteracy, and highlights recent trends in the promotion of biliteracy and multiliteracies in education. Literacy issues have come under the microscope of researchers in recent decades. The very concept of literacy includes skills such as understanding, interpreting, and managing different text types in different sociocultural environments. Therefore, the pioneers in the study of literacy characterize it as one multidimensional concept with social and cultural components, or go even further by talking about pluriliteracies/multiliteracies, which emerge through the complex linguistic and value practices adopted by speakers of multilingual societies in the 21st century.The contributions gathered here will give the reader a general idea of where research is heading in the areas of biliteracy and multiliteracies, especially in view of multilingualism and its ever-changing conditions. The authors situate their research within current debates in terms of theory and empirical data. In this volume, the reader will find several chapters discussing issues of biliteracy and multiliteracies in a wide variety of settings, countries, and orientations, including Brazil, Cyprus, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Portugal, and the USA.

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Fotini Anastassiou has served as an Adjunct Lecturer of Linguistics at the Hellenic Open University, Greece, and has also taught at the University of Athens. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Thessaly, Greece, and an MA in Translation from the University of Surrey, UK. Her work primarily focuses on multilingualism, third language learners and speakers, multilinguals' speech production and their language dynamics, biliteracy and multiliteracies, and English as a third and foreign language, as well as issues of interculturalism, accessibility and language studies. She is the author of two books, Multilingual Communication and Interactions and An Introduction in Multilingualism (in Greek). She is a member of the Greek Applied Linguistics Association and the International Association of Multilingualism.

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