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The Plurilingual and Multimodal Management of Participation and Subject Complexity in University CLIL Teamwork
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Borràs, Eulàlia; Moore, Emilee – English Language Teaching, 2019
This paper explores the interactions of a groupwork team composed of both local and exchange students, with heterogeneous competence in English, in an English-medium CLIL context at a technical university in Catalonia. Plurilingual and multimodal conversation analysis is used to trace how the students jointly complete an academic task. The…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Diversity and Multilingual Challenges in Academic Settings
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Yanaprasart, Patchareerat; Lüdi, Georges – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
Higher Education is caught between internationalization on the one hand and the quest for local support by fostering local practices on the other. The clash between uniformity-standardization and localization-specialization manifests itself in every university trying to adopt internationalization strategies. How can universities manage this…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Language Planning, Higher Education
"Living to the Rhythm of the City": Internationalisation of Universities and Tourism Discourse in Catalonia
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Gallego-Balsà, Lídia; Cots, Josep M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
This paper explores the impact of the tourism discourse on the self-representation strategies that a university in Catalonia adopts towards international students, and the extent to which these strategies connect with the stance of international students towards their study-abroad experience. The data were ethnographically collected during the…
Descriptors: International Education, Tourism, Content Analysis, Romance Languages
Conceptualising Multilingual Higher Education in Policies, Pedagogical Designs and Classroom Practices
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Moore, Emilee – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
In striving for internationalisation, government and university policies in Catalonia promote the use of English in classrooms in two ways that often overlap: (1) as a lingua franca aiding the participation of international students and (2) through immersion approaches targeting local students. However, as the findings presented in this article…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Higher Education, Educational Policy, International Education
Englishisation at a Global Space: Students and Staff Making Sense of Language Choices
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Martin-Rubió, Xavier; Cots, Josep Maria – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
This study starts from the premise that academic mobility contributes to the development of students' plurilingual identities and that study abroad contexts aiming at becoming global spaces are particularly interesting sites to explore the individuals' discursive work to (re-)construct their plurilingual identities by reconciling their language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Student Mobility, Multilingualism, Self Concept
Etymology and Vocabulary Development for the L2 College Student: Equal Relevance for Latin-Based and Non Latin-Based Foreign Students.
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Bellomo, Tom S. – 1999
A study investigated whether the use of etymology as an instructional technique for vocabulary development in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction is equally effective for students from Romance and other language backgrounds. Subjects were 20 community college ESL students in two cohorts. Pre- and posttests assessed etymological…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics