Ikerlan hau Asmoz fundazioak eta EHUk antolaturiko HIZNET soziolinguistika graduondo amaierako lana edo sakontze egitasmoa da. Etxepare Euskal Institutuak kudeatzen dituen
atzerriko unibertsitateetako irakurletzek euskararen kanpo zabalkundean eta nazioarteko irudian eraginik ote duten ikertu nahi izan dut bertan.
Interesgarria iruditu zait unibertsitate sare honen azterketa bat egitea, irakurletzei buruzko informazioa bilduz, batetik, eta nazioarteko ikasleen euskararekiko ideia eta iritziak jasoz,
bestetik. Helburu horretara bideratu nahi izan dut lan hau; baina, lan zientifiko sakon eta zehatza baino gehiago, alor hau ikertzeko egindako hurbilpen bat dela azpimarratu nahiko nuke, esparru
honetan egindako lehen ekarpen gisa ulertu beharrekoa.

Multilingualism is broadly understood as the knowledge and use of two or more languages by individuals in their everyday lives, both private and professional. It is increasingly acknowledged as an important issue of the contemporary world and the interest in the matter of multilingualism is growing rapidly in many areas, such as research, politics, or education. The authors of this book combine some of the questions in a truly interdisciplinary perspective in order to provide an insight into the variety and diversity of research problems of multilingualism. This collection is divided into ten chapters considering the selected matters from different points of view, gathering together empirical research from various fields. 

This volume proposes a new, post-Newtonian alley in modern language and communication studies. The new linguistics receives here the label ecolinguistics, as the conceptual-terminological field founded on the «ecological» metaphor seems optimal to formulate the thesis of human language being a life process, and involving a repertoire of ecosystemic, not exclusively cognitive or social, parameters. Communicators are living systems and as such they transpersonally co-build momentary meanings and communicational senses together with the rest of the communication field. The communication apparatus which is phylogenetically present in humans includes both the cognitive modalities and the noncognitive communication modalities. The ecolinguistic paradigm in modern linguistics offers new theoretical departure models for educational programs, for psychological/therapeutic interventions, or for self-exploratory and self-educational undertakings of a human communicator.