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Editors-in-Chief

Una Cunningham is Professor of English language education at the Dept. of Language Education at Stockholm University. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Educational Studies and Leadership at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and a registered teacher of English and Spanish. Una has been working for many years in the field of language education and has conducted research on English language teaching as well as multilingualism at home, school and preschool. She has worked intensively to create research-based information for parents of multilingual children and professionals who meet multilingual families. Her best-selling book Growing up with two languages is in its fourth edition with Routledge.

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BethAnne Paulsrud is Associate Professor of English Applied Linguistics and Head of the English Department at Dalarna University, Sweden. Her work as a teacher educator and researcher is informed by her many years of experience as a preschool and primary school teacher, as well as a mother tongue teacher. Dr. Paulsrud’s research focuses on multilingualism in educational policy and practice, English and English-medium instruction in Sweden, and family language policy. Her current research projects include an international comparative study of primary teachers’ attitudes, beliefs and knowledge of multilingualism. She has co-edited three volumes on translanguaging and education (Multilingual Matters, 2017, 2021, and Studentlitteratur, 2018).

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Professor Jeanette King has published widely in areas relating to the Māori language and languages spoken by Māori - from aspects of linguistic change, particularly in the phrasal lexicon, through to language revitalization. She leads the bilingualism theme at the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB) at UC where her research includes work on non-verbal behaviour of Māori and Pākehā in New Zealand and the development of proto-lexicons by non-Māori-speakers in New Zealand.

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Andrea Schalley is Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of Language, Literature and Intercultural Studies at Karlstad University. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for Language and Literature Education at Karlstad University, Research Affiliate at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, and a Coordinator of the International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA) Research Network on 'Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development'. She has published widely on bilingualism, biliteracy, semantics and linguistic typology. Currently, she also serves as editor-in-chief of the open-access book series 'Current Issues in Bilingualism' (Language Science Press).

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Jean Kim is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has worked for many years as a language educator and researcher in various countries. Through her many years of teaching experience in diverse contexts, she has researched the transmission and maintenance of minority languages in majority societies. In addition, her research interests include language policies, practices, and ideologies in multilingual contexts and the use of technology to enhance minority and majority language acquisition. Her recent research project focuses on the role of technology in enhancing English language proficiency in EFL contexts.

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Editorial Assistants

Dr. Linda Edwards is based at the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Having gown up in Wales, Linda has had a lifelong interest in minority language maintenance. Her research at the University of Canterbury followed many years as a language learner, language teacher, teacher trainer, lecturer and international language assessor. Linda’s research interests include second and multi-language acquisition, translanguaging, the use of technology in the language classroom as well as language assessment for migration and employment purposes.

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Jeanette Toth is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Dalarna University. Drawing on her years of teaching experience in Swedish compulsory schools and as a Mother Tongue teacher, she has investigated language ideologies in English-medium instruction (EMI) at the primary school level in Sweden. In addition to EMI, her research interests include policies, practices, and perspectives on language use in the classroom, particularly with regard to bilingual and multilingual education. She has previously written about EMI in two edited volumes on translanguaging and education (Multilingual Matters, 2017 and Studentlitteratur, 2018), and has co-edited a volume on translanguaging and EMI for Multilingual Matters (2021).

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Journal Manager

I am the Managing Editor of Stockholm University Press, with responsibility for organising the journals publishing scheme.

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