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Notes on contributors
Maria Helena Araújo e Sá is Full Professor for Foreign Language Education at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). Her research interests focus on Intercomprehension between Romance Languages, teacher education and intercultural education and research. She is the Director of the Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers –CIDTFF.
Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer is Associate Professor for Foreign Language Education (French and Spanish) at the University of Hamburg (Germany). Her research interests focus on pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures, plurilingual interaction and heritage language education.
Notes
1 We identified the relevant work through the following research databases: ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Scopus, B-on and Google Scholar.
2 We would like to thank Esperança Martins for her valuable help in the collection and technical analysis of the corpus.
3 The frequency of publication in the field is more notorious after 2010 (with 5 publications). After this year, the distribution is as follows: 2011 (3 publications), 2012 (2 publications), 2013 (13 publications), 2014 (6 publications), 2015 (3 publications), 2016 (7 publications) and 2017 (7 publications).
4 Other concepts currently being used to theoretically and ideologically frame the studies of multilingual interaction are ‘polylanguaging’, ‘lingua receptiva’, ‘intercomprehension’, ‘metrolingualism’, ‘polyglot dialog’ among others. See Melo-Pfeifer (Citation2018) for a revision and comparison of these concepts.
5 This cloud was generated through WebQDA. Please note that elements as ‘De’, ‘Education’ or ‘Van’ were perceived as independent parts of the names. At this point, we weren’t able to change it.