With contributions from a team of international experts, this handbook presents the innovative multi-competence approach to speakers who know more than one language. Wide-ranging chapters make this fascinating reading for students and researchers in the fields of SLA, bilingualism, linguistics and psychology.

1. Premises of multi-competence Vivian Cook; 2. Research questions and methodology of multi-competence Goro Murahata, Yoshiko Murahata and Vivian Cook; 3. Multi-competence in Second Language Acquisition: inroads into the mainstream? Lourdes Ortega; 4. Not through a glass darkly: refocusing the psycholinguistic study of bilingualism through a 'bivocal' lens Jyotsna Vaid and Renata Meuter; 5. Multilingualism research Rita Francheschini; 6. Multi-competence and dynamic/complex systems Kees de Bot; 7. Multi-competence and dominant language constellation Larissa Aronin; 8. Consequences of multi-competence for sociolinguistics research Li Wei; 9. A usage-based account of multi-competence Joan Kelly Hall; 10. Multi-competence and syntax Éva Berkes and Suzanne Flynn; 11. Syntactic processing Leah Roberts; 12. Language and cognition in bilinguals Annette M. B. de Groot; 13. Gestures in multi-competence Amanda Brown; 14. Pragmatic transfer in foreign language learners: a multi-competence perspective I-Ru Su; 15. Multi-competence and endangered language revitalization Tracy Hirata-Edds and Lizette Peter; 16. Multi-competence and first language attrition Bregtje Seton and Monika S. Schmid; 17. Cognitive consequences of multi-competence Panos Athanasopoulos; 18. Space, motion and thinking for language Anna Ewert; 19. Multi-competence and personality Jean-Marc Dewaele; 20. Multi-competence as a creative act: ramifications of the multi-competence paradigm for creativity research and creativity fostering education Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin; 21. Multi-competence and language teaching Virginia M. Scott; 22. Multi-competence and emotion Jean-Marc Dewaele; 23. Multi-competence and English as a lingua franca Ian MacKenzie; 24. A critical reaction from second language acquisition research David Singleton; 25. Questions of multi-competence: a written interview on issues raised in this book Guillaume Thierry; 26. Epilogue: multi-competence and the translanguaging instinct Li Wei.