Volume 31 in the Trends in Applied Linguistics series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The changing face of the "native speaker" / Nikolay Slavkov, Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, and Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo

Part one: Conceptual discussions

Chapter 1 Why the mythical "native speaker" has mud on its face / Jean-Marc Dewaele, Thomas H. Bak, and Lourdes Ortega

Chapter 2 The multilingual and multicompetent native speaker / Ulrike Jessner, Barbara Hofer, and Emese Malzer-Papp

Chapter 3 New speakers: New linguistic subjects / Joan Pujolar

Part two: Practices and representations

Chapter 4 Is there a native speaker in the class? A didactic view of a problematic notion / Jean-François de Pietro

Chapter 5 On the paradox of being native speakers of two "competing" languages: Turkish as the mother or the father tongue of Greek nationals / Maria Zerva

Chapter 6 What kind of speakers are these? Placing heritage speakers of Russian on a continuum / Olga Kagan, Miriam Minkov, Ekaterina Protassova, and Mila Schwartz

Chapter 7 The out-of-sight of "native speaker": A critical journey through models of social representations of plurilingual identities / Sofia Stratilaki-Klein

Chapter 8 Practice-proof concepts? Rethinking linguistic borders and families in multilingual communication: Exploiting the relationship between intercomprehension and translanguaging / Silvia Melo-Pfeifer

Part three: Policies and controversies

Chapter 9 Provenance and possession: Rethinking the mother tongue / Mariana Bono

Chapter 10 The pluricentricity and ownership of English / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu

Chapter 11 "I want to be bilingual!" Contested imaginings of bilingualism in news Brunswick, Canada / Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Kelie L. Marshall

Chapter 12 Questioning the questions: Institutional and individual perspectives on children's language repertoires / Nadia Kerschhofer-Puhalo, Nikolay Slavkov

Afterword / Jim Cummins

"The notion of the native speaker and its undertones of ultimate language competence, language ownership and social status has been problematized by various researchers, arguing that the ensuing monolingual norms and assumptions are flawed or inequitable in a global super-diverse world. However, such norms are still ubiquitous in educational, institutional and social settings, in political structures and in research paradigms. This collection offers voices from various contexts and corners of the world and further challenges the native speaker construct adopting poststructuralist and postcolonial perspectives. It includes conceptual, methodological, educational and practice-oriented contributions. Topics span language minorities, intercomprehension, plurilingualism and pluriculturalism, translanguaging, teacher education, new speakers, language background profiling, heritage languages, and learner identity, among others. Collectively, the authors paint the portrait of the "changing face of the native speaker" while also strengthening a new global agenda in multilingualism and social justice. These diverse and interconnected contributions are meant to inspire researchers, university students, educators, policy makers and beyond." (Publisher's Website)