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This book examines communicative practices in a circuit-board manufacturing plant in California's Silicon Valley, where the employees come from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds, their activities involve the use of high-tech equipment and their practices are shaped by, and sometimes contest, local and global forces. Analyses of the data show that learning occurs optimally when workers make strategic use of both their home languages and English within an ecology of semiotic systems. The book demonstrates the importance of accounting for multilingual practices in studies of multimodality. Through detailed ethnography it brings the reader to a better understanding of learning-in-practice in work environments, where the complexities and accelerated growth of new technologies along with a globalized world produce new forms of multilingual and multimodal communication.

Bilingual communication in organizations. --- Business communication. --- Language acquisition. --- Multilingualism --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Language and languages --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Administrative communication --- Communication, Administrative --- Communication, Business --- Communication, Industrial --- Industrial communication --- Communication --- Communication in organizations --- Social aspects. --- Acquisition --- Bilingual communication in organizations --- Business communication --- Language acquisition --- Social aspects --- E-books --- Multilingualism Social aspects

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This book is both a collection of cutting-edge research in the areas of multilingualism, translanguaging and bilingual education, and a tribute to the research and influence of Ofelia García. It recognizes Ofelia García's contribution as both a scholar and friend, and her place at the centre of a movement dedicated to equality and inclusion.

Bilingual education. --- Education, Bilingual. --- Multilingualism. --- Translanguaging (Linguistics) --- Translanguaging (Linguistics). --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Linguistics --- Multilingualism --- Language and languages --- Bilingualism --- Multilingual education --- Bilingual education