ABSTRACT
These days, researchers in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and educational linguistics are increasingly replacing linguistic monolith orthodoxies about language with understandings of any language or other communicative element as part of an individual’s communicative repertoire. This chapter discusses how this new approach has emerged from a context of massive mobility and diversity, engendering different kinds of interactions and fostering new understandings of the role of multilingualism in language learning and communication. I conclude by specifically addressing the role of English in a contemporary individual’s communicative repertoire.
