ABSTRACT
Increasing multilingualism has important repercussions for education. Research has focused on second language learners or on heritage language maintenance in second language contexts, but what has been almost completely ignored are foreign language contexts. The increasingly diverse linguistic repertoires evident in classrooms makes foreign language learning a complex matter. The language in question may have quite a different sociolinguistic status in the lives of different learners, and the learners’ experiences may also differ in relation to the language. Teachers, on the other hand, may struggle with how to recognize, acknowledge, and make use of all languages present in the classroom. Very often learners in the foreign language classroom are assumed to be monolingual speakers of the same language. Learning materials play an important role in shaping classroom teaching and learning practices, and therefore it is crucial to study materials as well.
