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English Medium Instruction in Moroccan Universities: Implications for Multilingualism, Linguistic Dependency and Epistemic Justice
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Hamza R'boul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In an era of internationalisation and globalisation, many institutional and national governments' higher education policies have embraced neoliberal agendas that encourage the use of English as a medium of instruction (EMI). Due to the postcolonial struggles of the Global South, it is important to critically examine the entanglement of EMI with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Role
'It Has to Be in a Natural Way': A Critical Exploration of Co-Teaching Relationships in Trilingual Preschool Classrooms in Hong Kong
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Stephanie C. Sanders-Smith; Liv T. Dávila – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Post-colonial Hong Kong is an officially trilingual city with significant numbers of residents speaking English, Cantonese, Mandarin, or some combination of all three. Competency in these languages is promoted through educational policies and practices at all levels of schooling. Using concepts from the Deweyan framework of democracy and…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, English (Second Language)
World Englishes, Secularisation, and De-Secularisation: Examining English Language Textbooks in a Muslim Society from the Perspective of Language as Situated Practice
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M. Obaidul Hamid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The ideological role of English, beyond its instrumental value, is reported to be immense. British colonial rule deployed English as an ideological tool which facilitated colonial subjugation and religious conversion. Connections between English and evangelism have widened in the postcolonial and globalising world, leading to labelling English as…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction