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Méndez García, María del Carmen; Cores-Bilbao, Esther; Moreno Gámez, Laura – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Multicultural European societies increasingly demand internationally oriented citizens, who are willing to actively participate in civic life and able to successfully access the labour market. The European dimension in education supposedly endows youngsters with civic values, multiculturalist attitudes and plurilingual competences which ultimately…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism
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Garrett, Peter; Gallego Balsà, Lídia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
European higher education institutions are in general highly committed to internationalisation, seeing it as providing ways into the global education market, as an indicator of academic excellence, and for generating income. In multilingual settings, minority languages are not always given adequate consideration in this process and may be a source…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Higher Education
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Moore, Emilee; Patiño-Santos, Adriana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
This paper studies the situated meaning given to a so-called "welcome" service for international students at a Catalan university. The official business of the service is to offer support with bureaucratic procedures and information about available services, including those for learning Catalan. However, the complex range of overlapping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Romance Languages, Second Language Learning
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Llurda, Enric; Cots, Josep M.; Armengol, Lurdes – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The key role of administrative staff in the implementation of specific institutional policies at university has often been ignored when analysing policies or attitudes related to higher education. Consequently, little is known about the administrative staff's attitudes and involvement relating to the processes of internationalisation and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Higher Education, Educational Policy, International Education