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Eunhae Cho; Celeste Kinginger – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
What drives provincial students in Korea to choose a college in Seoul? What role does English language learning play in their choices? This study focuses on two young academic migrants to Seoul, Joon and Lynn, to explore how macrocultural phenomena shaped their psychology and contributed to their language education. Previous studies have focused…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, College Choice, Rural to Urban Migration
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Deborah Charlotte Darling – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Linguistic diversity emerging from international student mobility, in non-anglophone universities, is typically eclipsed by the existing tensions between the national language(s) and English as 'Lingua franca'. Through a series of semi-structured interviews with university lecturers, this study highlights the tensions surrounding national…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
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Xiaoyan Guo; Lifeng Miao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Informed by Bourdieu's conceptualisation of habitus and its relation with social class, this study explores the construction and negotiation of middle-class identity among a group of urban overseas returnees in China. Using ethnographic interviews and online observational data, the study found that participants built a compliant identity…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Life Style, Social Class