Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition: Psychological Perspectives (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism) (Volume 31)

Jasone Cenoz is Professor of Research Methods in Education at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain, and a member of the advisory committee of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI). Her research focuses on multilingual education, bilingualism and multilingualism. She has published extensively and has presented her work at numerous international conferences and seminars.

Britta Hufeisen is Director of the Language Resource Center at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Edmonton/AB, Canada. She has published in the fields of third language acquisition and multilingualism. Another area of interest is the analysis of cultural-specificity in the development of foreign language learner narrative genres.

Jessner, Ulrike is Professor at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and the University of Pannonia, Veszprem (Hungary) where she acts as founding member of the International Doctoral School of Multilingualism. She has published widely in the field of multilingualism with a special focus on the acquisition of English in multilingual contexts. She is the co-author of A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism (with Philip Herdina in 2002) which pioneered DSCT in language acquisition research.