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Bier, Ada; Lasagabaster, David – Language and Education, 2023
Attitudes are learned and one's personal experience and social environment play a role in shaping them. Teachers in particular exert a significant impact on the formation of students' language attitudes. This study targets prospective teachers. It is a replication of a survey whose data collection took place 18 years ago in the Basque Autonomous…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Usage, Student Attitudes, Multilingualism
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Doiz, Aintzane; Lasagabaster, David; Sierra, Juan Manuel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The learning of prestigious international languages becomes a process fraught with tensions in multilingual settings. The process of internationalisation in many universities has led to the spread of English-medium instruction (EMI), which tends to raise linguistic debates particularly in the case of bilingual institutions. However, and despite a…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism
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Doiz, Aintzane; Lasagabaster, David; Sierra, Juan Manuel – World Englishes, 2011
In the new European higher education space, Universities in Europe are exhorted to cultivate and develop multilingualism. The European Commission's 2004-2006 action plan for promoting language learning and diversity speaks of the need to build an environment which is favourable to languages. Yet reality indicates that it is English which reigns…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Group Discussion, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism
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Doiz, Aintzane; Lasagabaster, David; Sierra, Juan – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
One effect of the Bologna Declaration is that teaching staff and students are becoming more mobile, increasing linguistic diversity in the European Higher Education Area. This multilingual internationalisation is especially noticeable in bilingual universities such as the University of the Basque Country in Spain, where English-medium instruction…
Descriptors: Global Approach, International Education, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Lasagabaster, David – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2005
Although the presence of three (or even more) languages in the curriculum is an expanding phenomenon in Europe, brought about by the concurrence of regionalisation and internationalisation, the number of research studies tackling the analysis of attitudes towards multilingualism is very limited. By examining the attitudes towards Basque, Spanish…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Questionnaires, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
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Lasagabaster, David – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
The enlargement of the European Union (EU) has strengthened the position of English, a situation which has led some voices to warn against the hegemony of this language. Yet, very few studies have been undertaken in contexts where English is added to the presence of both a minority and a majority language. This is the case of the Basque Autonomous…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, Second Languages