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Bodis, Agnes – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
International students studying at Australian universities are largely represented in the media as problematic speakers of English, in part due to the dominance of the monolingual mindset as an approach to language. This paper focuses instead on international students' multilingualism and examines the multimodal media representation of them as…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yates, Lynda – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
Whether in pursuit of a safer place to live, economic advancement or simply from a desire to travel, increasing numbers of professionals find themselves working outside familiar cultural settings and using a language in which they did not train. As a country of migration, Australia is home to many such transnationals. Despite high levels of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Child Care, Medicine
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Cho, Jinhyun – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
This article examines the socially constructed nature of significant linguistic insecurity with regard to the English language in Korean society as informed by neoliberalism. It specifically explores how linguistic insecurity leads to the pursuit of linguistic perfectionism under the popular discourse of neoliberal personhood. Participants are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Piller, Ingrid; Lising, Loy – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
Australia is one of the world's largest beef exporters. However, meat processing jobs are widely considered undesirable and are increasingly filled with employer-sponsored migrant workers on temporary long-stay visas. Against this background, our paper explores the role of language in the employment and migration trajectories of a group of meat…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment, Temporary Employment, Food Processing Occupations