Internationalization of Higher Education, Mobility, and Multilingualism

Liyanage, Indika

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77655-2_1

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“…In addition, as stated by Ref. [51], the utility of multilingualism in internationalized higher education has generated a greater demand for a concentration on conflicts and possible solutions than ever before, despite an unclear paradigm of multilingual issues and an overwhelming emphasis on English. Meanwhile, power discourses continue to provoke a new conflict with the competition of other languages, which attribute opportunities to attain economic development and prosperity to the superiority of English-dominant education [52].…”

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Order and Crash: Multilingual Ecology and Language Planning in Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education Institutions

2023

Education Sciences

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As preconditions and consequences of the globalization of higher education, multilingualism has reconfigured language ecology, language policy and planning, and multilingual management in the contemporary world. However, studies of multilingualism focusing on real-language scenarios in Sino-foreign cooperative education institutions (SCEIs) are rare. This study explores the multilingual ecology, language policy and planning, and language management of three leading SCEIs in China. It also investigates the attitudes of SCEIs’ stakeholders toward language use and language policy in multilingual contexts. A case study was conducted by analyzing a significant number of language policy documents, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, and partial participant observations. The research results reveal the main features of multilingual coexistence and intense competition in the three leading SCEIs by identifying the micro, meso, and macro issues of language management. The effects of language policy and planning mechanisms are also identified in SCEIs of higher education. Potential conflicts in multilingual environments are interpreted from the perspective of global cooperation. Last, recommendations are offered for the advancement of the language evolution of SCEIs in China.

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Order and Crash: Multilingual Ecology and Language Planning in Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education Institutions

2023

Education Sciences

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“…The diversity of languages, identities and cultures present in many higher education institutions means that "we can no longer assume a connection between the language of instruction, a local host community and a national culture and language" (Baker, 2016, p. 437) because higher education institutions are often intercultural spaces with internationalizations attempts and student mobility dynamics (Liyanage, 2018). Such perspective allows for a more profound engagement with the topics of international students and cross-cultural communication education (Young & Schartner, 2014), intercultural foreign language teaching and Learning in higher education contexts (Romanowski & Bandura, 2019) and bringing crosscultural communication analysis into foreign language classrooms (O'Brien, 2019).…”

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English Language Learning as Intercultural Experience

R’boul

Alastuey

2021

Trends and Developments for the Future of Language Education in Higher Education

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Teaching English in higher education entails additional factors and considerations that exemplify the complexity of accounting for the diverse population in modern higher education institutions. In particular, the increasing flow of international students and the employment demands of functioning in multicultural contexts render helping students to develop a critical understating of intercultural relations an important aspect of English language teaching. With the increasing adoption of English as a medium of instruction and its use as a lingua franca in intercultural communication, it is important to structure English education in a way that accounts for intercultural relations both in and outside the university. In addition to the postmodern conceptualizations of interculturality that emphasize the fluidity of culture, language and identity intercultural relations are characterized by power imbalances. That is why this chapter makes a case for the necessity of considering sociopolitical realities in intercultural English language teaching in higher education.

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Students’ Perceptions of Translingual Pedagogic Practices in a Chinese EMI University

Prado

2024

Multilingual Education Yearbook

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Internationalization of Higher Education, Mobility, and Multilingualism

Cited by 9 publications

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Order and Crash: Multilingual Ecology and Language Planning in Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education Institutions

Order and Crash: Multilingual Ecology and Language Planning in Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education Institutions

English Language Learning as Intercultural Experience

Students’ Perceptions of Translingual Pedagogic Practices in a Chinese EMI University

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