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Ying Wang – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
This paper uncovers L1 Chinese speakers' online intercultural communication where they deploy English as a lingua franca and other spatial repertoires to co-construct translanguaging practices with their interlocutors and present three-fold identities--translingual, L1 Chinese, and legitimate users of English, leading to the argument that…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Chinese, Self Concept, English (Second Language)
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Sam Goodchild; Miriam Weidl – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
In our article, we investigate the complex dynamics of linguistic understandings and mis- or non-understanding within multilingual contexts. Through the lens of sociolinguistic exploration, we navigate the multifaceted landscapes of language use, applying a multi-perspective approach and the triangulation method to explore the depths of linguistic…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, Researchers
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David Lasagabaster – Language Policy, 2025
South Africa immediately springs to mind as the epitome of multilingual language policies. In fact, its Constitution granted official status to 11 languages in 1996, and the Language Policy in Higher Education passed by the Ministry of Education in 2002 required universities to develop and use the indigenous official languages as academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Planning, Student Attitudes
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Sanna Mustonen; Maiju Strömmer – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The number of migrant students in vocational education in Finland is rising. Their educational backgrounds and language resources are diverse, and research is needed to gain better understanding on how their existing knowledge can be acknowledged, supported, and deployed when they become multilingual professionals in their own fields. In this…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Health Personnel, Migrants, Adults
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Reni Kusumaningputri – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite the existence of many studies on the identity of language learners in the offline settings, few focus on how English language learners in the expanding circle construct their identity through their use of English and their choices over their first language capital as they enjoy variations of multilinguacultural exposes in the digital…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Official Languages, Language Role, English (Second Language)
Albina Necak Lük; Attila Kovács – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2024
The aim of the Regional Dossier series is to provide concise descriptions of regional or minority languages in education, mainly in Europe but also in other parts of the world. The majority of the Hungarian-speaking population in Slovenia lives in the bilingual ethnically mixed area of the Prekmurje region, where both Slovene and Hungarian are…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Language Minorities, Slavic Languages, Native Language