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Schaller-Schwaner, Iris – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This paper derives from an ethnographically oriented study of the emergence of English in innovative disciplinary speech events at a French-German bilingual university in Switzerland. From the outside viewed as dissent from the university's brand bilingualism, the use of English as a lingua franca enabled the multilingual "agents of…
Descriptors: Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Multilingualism