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Julliet Munyaradzi – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The global spread and hegemony of English as a medium of teaching, learning and research has come to be closely associated with neoliberalisation of higher education in the universities across the world, and has negatively impacted on epistemic issues, especially in Global South universities. No permanent solution has been found on challenges of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Language Planning, Educational Policy
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Davie, Jim – Applied Language Learning, 2023
Graduates who typically have L1 English, have majored in one foreign language (FL, L2) or more at university and have gone on to occupy FL posts in the UK civil service have reported mismatches between their pre-employment L2 learning and the tasks they face in the workplace. Such reported divergences in UK civil service capability have not,…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Majors (Students)
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Zuo, Miaomiao; Walsh, Steve – Classroom Discourse, 2023
This study considers translation as a joint enterprise in the management of both linguistic translation and associated meaning-making resources in English language teacher talk from a translanguaging perspective. Analysis of classroom teaching in Chinese universities using conversation analysis (CA) under the SETT (self-evaluation of teacher talk)…
Descriptors: Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Junnier, Frances M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Drawing on theories from Applied Linguistics research, this doctoral dissertation brings together European perspectives on "language," "identity," and "voice" in an examination of English as the international language of science (EILS). Using the theoretical frame of Dynamic Systems Theory (DST), each of the chapters…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, Applied Linguistics
Owens, Kay – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2023
This paper is a brief summary of a large historic research project in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The project aimed to document and analyse the nature of mathematics education from tens of thousands of years ago to the present. Data sources varied from first contact and later records, archaeology, oral histories, language analyses, lived experiences,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Colonialism, Educational History, Archaeology
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Lamoureux, Sylvie A. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2012
Drawing on discursive data collected during an 18-month reflexive critical ethnography of the transition to postsecondary education, this paper explores how graduates of a French first-language secondary school in Ontario, Canada, struggle to affirm their linguistic identity in their new academic and social communities. Despite not crossing…
Descriptors: French Canadians, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Ethnography