Collectively authored by the Language Acts and Worldmaking team, this definitive volume offers reflective narratives on research, theory, and practice during the flagship project of the same name, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Open Research Initiative. It returns to the project's core principles - that our words create worlds and we are agents of worldmaking - analyzing the practices and outcomes of collaborative work and looking forward by offering specific ideas on how the work done can continue to impact the world. It focuses on the main research strands, examining the role of the language teacher as a mediator between languages and cultures, worldmaking in modern languages, translation and imagination, languages and hospitality, digital mediations, as well as how words change and create worlds. Critically, it analyzes the impact on communities living in multilingual cities and the ways in which learning a first language, and then a second, plays a crucial role in our ability to understand our culture in relation to others and to appreciate the ways in which they are interconnected.

Specific objectives are as follows:

• To propose new ways of bridging the gaps between those who teach and research languages and those who learn and use them in everyday settings, from professional to personal.
• To put research into the hands of wider communities.
• To share a philosophy, policy, and practice of language teaching and learning that turns research into action.
• To provide the research, experience, and data that allow informed discussions about current issues and attitudes in language learning, teaching, and research.
• To share knowledge at all levels and experiences of language teaching and learning.
• To showcase exciting new work that arises from various types of community activity and has practical significance for its audience.
• To disseminate new research in languages that deal with diverse communities of linguistic practice.

Pages: 272, Year of Publication: 2022