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Prophesying Success in the Higher Education System of Multilingual Switzerland
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Zimmermann, Martina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper investigates the conditions under which stakeholders in the higher education system in multilingual Switzerland link expectations of students' future economic to the development of human capital. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in a project focusing on mobile students crossing linguistic borders within Switzerland, I examine how…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Plurilingualism, Multilingualism and Internationalisation in the European Higher Education Area: Challenges and Perspectives at a Swiss University
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Meyer, Stephan; Gekeler, Petra; Manger, Sebastian; Urank, Daniela – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
The relationships between the internationalisation of higher education and language are still poorly understood. We foreground the perspective of students in order to advance our understanding of these interrelations in the context of the consolidation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Accordingly, we propose gathering answers to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Higher Education, Multilingualism
"Tertiaersprachen" im Urteil von Studienanfaengern ("Tertiary Languages" in the Judgment of Beginning Students)
Schroeder, Konrad – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1977
A student questionnaire at Augsburg University revealed that students overwhelmingly favored continuing to study foreign languages begun in school, but also beginning Italian, Spanish or Russian. Speaking and auditory understanding were rated higher than reading and writing. Over two-thirds favored English as a common European language. (Text is…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Italian
Apologizing in Italian and English.
Lipson, Maxine – IRAL, 1994
Compared apology exchanges in Italy and the United States by having 10 Italian university students view American situation comedy television programs and rewrite particular conflict and apology exchanges in an Italian context. The status and role of the programs' participants affected the Italian students' choice of apology strategies more so than…
Descriptors: College Students, Comedy, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
The Role of Linguistics in Italian Departments.
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Kinder, John J. – Italica, 1996
Discusses the presence and significance of linguistics in Italian departments at universities in Australia and worldwide against the background of multiculturalism, the politicization of the Italian population in Australia, and the emergence of Italy as a major economic and political power. Argues that the boundary lines between linguistics and…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Cultural Pluralism, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Eritrea: Lessons for Australia's Language Policy.
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Andreoni, Helen – Babel: Australia, 1997
Discusses language policy matters and the management of cultural and linguistic diversity in the area of education, with particular reference to Eritrea in East Africa and its application to Australia's language situation. The article presents examples of the impact of the tyrannical imposition of language usage, including the long-term…
Descriptors: Amharic, Change Agents, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Design