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Language Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International Tertiary Education (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)
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Language Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International Tertiary Education (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)
Series: Multilingual Education, 5
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Reflecting the increased use of English as lingua franca in today's
university education, this volume maps the interplay and
competition between English and other tongues in a learning
community that in practice is not only bilingual but multilingual.
The volume includes case studies from Japan, Australia, South
Africa, Germany, Catalonia, China, Denmark and Sweden, analysing a
range of issues such as the conflict between the students' native
languages and English, the reality of parallel teaching in English
as well as in the local language, and classrooms that are nominally
English-speaking but multilingual in practice. The book assesses
the factors common to successful bilingual learners, and provides
university administrators, policy makers and teachers around the
world with a much-needed commentary on the challenges they face in
increasingly multilingual surroundings characterized by a
heterogeneous student population. Patterns of language alternation
and choice have become increasingly important to the development of
an understanding of the internationalisation of higher education
that is occurring world-wide. This volume draws on the extensive
and varied literature related to the sociolinguistics of
globalisation - linguistic ethnography, discourse analysis,
language teaching, language and identity, and language planning -
as the theoretical bases for the description of the nature of these
emerging multilingual communities that are increasingly found in
international education. It uses observational data from eleven
studies that take into account the macro (societal), meso
(university) and micro (participant) levels of language interaction
to explicate the range of language encounters - highlighting both
successful and problematic interactions and their related language
ideologies. Although English is the common lingua franca, the
studies in the volume highlight the importance of the multilingual
resources available to participants in higher educational
institutions that are used to negotiate and solve their language
problems. The volume brings to our attention a range of important
insights into language issues found in the internationalisation of
higher education, and provides a resource for those wishing to
understand or do research on how language hybridity and
multilingual communicative practices are evolving there. Richard B.
Baldauf Jr., Professor, The University of Queensland
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