We begin this issue with our invited authors Dr. Annie Pilote, Dr. Marie-Odile Magnan and Dr. Cynthia Groff (...) three articles are selected papers from the Annual Interuniversity Roundtable on Research in Language and Literature Education (...). Comencem aquest volum…

Abstract This paper constructs a theoretical framework  that views academic writing from a context-based perspective.   The shift  from text to context results from implementating the  concept of activity system into the academic community, envisioning academia as the sum of the…

AbstractRelations between francophones and anglophones in Québec City reflect historical struggles and changing power relations between the groups. Using a constructivist and interactionist approach to identity and ethnicity, we examine the role of English language schools in intergroup relations. We…

AbstractThis article discusses specific examples of virtually mediated interactions involving two transatlantic groups of student-teachers who engaged in a task-based telecollaborative project for the purposes of a teacher education course. The Vygotskyan framework of learning and development and particularly the…

AbstractA detailed analysis is provided here of the concept, perceptions and attitudes towards native and non-native English speaking teachers. The notion that the ideal language educator is a native speaker is explained and questioned, and examples of the unfair treatment…

This issue is an especially exciting one for me as editor of Bellaterra. We have now been publishing this journal for more than twelve months and in this volume, new features that are the fruit of our experience from this…

This issue, with special editor Natalia Evnitskaya, is about CLIL (Content Language and Integrated Learning). It is dedicated to Mia Victori Blaya, who passed away on the 29th November 2010 ...Aquest volum, editat per Natalia Evnitskaya, versa sobre la implementació dels enfocaments AICLE (Aprenentatge…

We have an exciting volume to close the year 2011 with a variety of articles on relevant topics in language and literature teaching and learning. ...Per tancar l'any 2011, us oferim un volum remarcable per la seva varietat d'articles sobre…

AbstractThe implementation of foreign languages in primary schools in Europe and Latin America since the 1980’s motivated some administrative and academic decisions in the teacher development of both in-service and pre-service primary school teachers. In this article, first, the most…

SummaryReview of the book entitled Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development: Learning Teaching, 2010, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York (Edited by Viv Ellis, Anne Edwards, and Peter Smagorinsky). The review first discusses the importance that…