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摘要：Thorne discusses how "unpredictability is the new normal" as work practices change, "qualities, quantities, and processes mediating social interaction are expanding," and life and civic engagement increasingly illustrate the need for sophisticated communication, comprehension, and analytic abilities in intercultural and plurilingual contexts. Such dynamics articulate what Thorne sees as one of the primary goals of instructed foreign language and second-language education -- "to cultivate the conditions of possibility for developing heightened awareness of processes of meaning making and the divergent cultural practices, values, and ideologies that are involved." As this goal is difficult or impossible to realize without giving attention to units of thinking and doing extending beyond individual performance, the idea of "community" comes into play. Adapted from the source document