Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : pluricentric languages and language education – implications and innovations / Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner

Part 1. Pluricentricity and language teaching

Pluricentric languages and the teaching of Spanish and French : strengthening disciplinary links / Claudia Polzin-Haumann

Integrating linguistic diversity into English language teaching : challenges in implementing a pluricentric approach / Matthias Hutz

Transferring pluricentric approaches from the teaching of Portuguese and Vietnamese : a comparative approach to dealing with dialectal variation in school languages / Christian Koch

Part 2. Pluricentric languages and aspects of linguistic variation in language education

Moving from awareness and understanding to tolerance and promotion? On Spanish teacher students' knowledge of and attitudes towards language variation / Agustín Corti, Bernhard Pöll

Pre-service teachers and their awareness of varieties of Spanish / Katharina Wieland

Specific preferences vs. inclusive foreign language education
(pre-service) teachers' implicit attitudes towards varieties of English / Joanna Pfingsthorn, Tim Giesler

Encounters with Englishes : language learning biographies as a window to teacher students' cognitions / Stefanie Hehner

Creating awareness of pluricentricity at University Language Departments : a case study of Dutch / Marijke De Belder, Andreas Hiemstra

Part 3. New approaches to teaching and learning pluricentric languages

German as a pluricentric language in teacher education at the Universities of Rio de Janeiro / Camila Meirelles, Mônica Savedra

Language corpora and the teaching and learning of English as an international language / Julia Schlüter

Pluricentric language teaching and world Englishes-informed curriculum design for teacher training programs / Natalia Marakhovska

Pluricentric languages in University Teacher Education
towards increased curricular coherence / Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner