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Working Group 9 Members

Carla Bagna

Affiliation: Università per Stranieri di Siena

Graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures (French language four-year, three-year Russian address language language teaching) in 1998 at the University of Pavia. She received in 2002 the PhD in Teaching Italian to Foreigners at the University for Foreigners of Siena. PhD Thesis: The prepositions in near native speakers of Italian L2. Uses and functions of an evolving system: theoretical and educational implications. Researcher in the same University (1st June 2006 – 1st May 2014) Director of the Language Centre of the University for Foreigners in Siena from october 2010. May 2014: Associate Professor in Educational Linguistics at the University for Foreigners of Siena (Italy)

Research interests: plurilingualism, superdiversity, second language learning/teaching, immigration

Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin

Affiliation: University of Limerick

Research interests: I research within the broad tripartite language policy paradigm composed of language practices, ideologies and beliefs about language, and the intentional or unintentional intervention in these processes by agents of change. I conduct long-term ethnographic research in the Irish Gaeltacht and other extended projects in the Isle of Man and Brittany, as well as contemporary studies of the sociolinguistics of Wales, Scotland, Nova Scotia and minority language policy in Europe. In conducting this research I work collaboratively with local speaker communities, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students and with colleagues in international networks.

Massimiliano Spotti

Affiliation: Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg School of Humanities, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

1) asylum 2.0 and the implication of the internet for the process of asylum seeking practices and the politics of suspicion

2) the institutional responses to super-diversity in urban and non-urban spaces across Europe with a specific focus on regular primary school classrooms and classrooms for the reception of young third country nationals.

3) e-citizenship apprenticeship, e-inclusion/exclusion and the process of enregisterment - through CEFR based language testing ? of newly arrived migrants in discourses of morality and national belonging.

Research interests: sociolinguistic ethnographic studies in Dutch as L2 classrooms, L2 policing for low literate migrants, superdiversity and language based citizenship testing

Josep Soler

He graduated in English Studies (2002) and General Linguistics (2004) from the University of Barcelona, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in Linguistics and Communication (2010). His main research interests cut across the broadly-defined areas of sociolinguistics and language policy and planning, with an emphasis on speakers' linguistic ideologies. In his latest work, he has been interested in analysing the language question in the internationalisation of higher education, as well as the linguistic ideologies and practices of multilingual families.

Affiliation: Department of English, Stockholm University

Research interests: Language policy, linguistic ideologies, ethnography, discourse studies

Colin Williams

Formerly Research Professor in Sociolinguistics, now an Honorary Professor, in the School of Welsh, Cardiff University. Currently he is a Visiting Fellow, St Edmund's College, the University of Cambridge, UK.

Affiliation: Cardiff University / Cambridge University

Research interests: New Speakers in Official Language Strategies