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Language Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International Tertiary Education

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Description for Language Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International Tertiary Education Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Haberland, Hartmut; Preisler, Bent; Lonsmann, Dorte; Gehrke, Berit. Series: Multilingual Education. Num Pages: 265 pages, 7 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFDM; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 173 x 20. Weight in Grams: 548.

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 ... Read more

 

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Series
Multilingual Education
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400764750
SKU
V9789400764750
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Hartmut Haberland is Professor in German Language and the Sociolinguistics of Globalization at Roskilde University, Denmark, and the leader of the research group An Ethnography of Language Encounters: Language and Interaction in the Globalized Corporation (LINGCORP). He founded the Journal of Pragmatics with Jacob Mey in 1977 and is presently co-editor of Pragmatics and Society and Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. His ... Read more

Reviews for Language Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International Tertiary Education
From the reviews: “Each chapter offers an interesting analysis of language use and negotiation, and together, the volume presents a complete depiction of the linguistic diversity of the international university. … this volume would be quite accessible to researchers, educators, and students … . The contributions to the book are thoughtfully organized into parts, which could make this volume ... Read more

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