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Chen, Le – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Up to date, there is scarce quantitative literature accounting for the interrelationships of the components (policies, beliefs, and practices) of academic language policy. This paper reports findings from a mixed-methods study of the enactment of academic English language policy by focusing on international students' perceptions of the classroom…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Students, Language Usage, Educational Policy
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Halupka-Rešetar, Sabina; Kneževic, Ljiljana; Topalov, Jagoda – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
The paper investigates the concept of willingness to communicate (WTC) in the context of tertiary education in Serbia with a twofold aim: (a) to assess the level of students' WTC, both generally and in relation to each of the four language skills, both inside the classroom and outside of it; (b) to explore the extent to which orientation towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, College Students
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Gao, Xuesong; Zheng, Yongyan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
There have been widespread concerns over the decline of modern languages and waning interest in learning languages other than English (LOTEs) around the world, thought to be partly due to recent political events including Brexit and Trump's aggressive isolationism in the United States. By contrast, governments in Greater China have energetically…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Modern Languages
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Pitts, Margaret Jane; Brooks, Catherine F. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Set within the context of a global pursuit towards the internationalisation of higher education, this paper critically examines student discourse in a globally connected classroom between learners in the USA and Singapore. It makes salient some of the cultural assumptions and tensions that undergird students' discourse in collaborative…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Intercultural Communication, Discourse Analysis
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Preece, Siân – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
As universities in the Anglophone world attend to operating on a global stage, linguistic diversity in the sector has intensified. Historically, higher education has adopted language-as-problem orientations to managing linguistic diversity, viewing multilingual repertoires largely as an obstacle. An emerging body of work informed by…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Higher Education, Multilingualism
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Edwards, John; Chisholm, Joan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Responses of Canadian university students, faculty, and townspeople to a questionnaire regarding perceptions toward multiculturalism revealed much variability in ethnic self-descriptions, suggesting that the language-identity link may not be essential for continuing identity. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnicity
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Clachar, Arlene – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Addresses the social psychological paradox of learning a language, which in one interethnic situation represents the "ingroup" language, while in another interethnic context, it represents the "outgroup" language, a situation characterizing the language-learning experience of most Puerto Rican return migrants (PRRMs). (25…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, College Students, Context Effect, English