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Kang, Dae-Min – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
This study longitudinally examined university-level students' stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with regard to English-medium instruction (EMI). Sixteen graduate students enrolled in an English-medium course in a university in Korea participated in the study. The research instruments were classroom observations,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Language of Instruction
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Nguyen, Trang Thi Thuy – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
This article examines the language practices of Vietnamese students in Taiwan in relation to their social connectedness across different contact zones. Data were obtained from interviews with Vietnamese students of English-medium programmes in Taiwanese universities. Findings suggest that the students, in managing their English and Chinese in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), College Students
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Yung, Kevin Wai-Ho – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
Internationalisation has recently become one of the major developmental goals within many institutions of higher education, where the use of languages on campus plays an important role. While research focusing on the use of English in higher education is growing, little attention has been paid to out-of-class contexts. This paper reports on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interviews, Self Concept, Foreign Countries
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Martin-Rubió, Xavier; Cots, Josep Maria – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
This study starts from the premise that academic mobility contributes to the development of students' plurilingual identities and that study abroad contexts aiming at becoming global spaces are particularly interesting sites to explore the individuals' discursive work to (re-)construct their plurilingual identities by reconciling their language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Student Mobility, Multilingualism, Self Concept
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Kim, Jeongyeon; Tatar, Bradley; Choi, Jinsook – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2014
This study aims to contrastively examine Korean and international students' experiences of taking subject courses at a Korean university. Focusing on the viewpoints of the students, rather than central authorities, we attempt to reveal how language use and cultural factors are interpenetrated in the praxis of English-medium instruction (EMI). The…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Korean, Interviews, English (Second Language)
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Dyers, Charlyn – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2009
The ongoing migration from the rural areas of South Africa to its cities is exerting strong influences on the language practices of the young, as they learn to cope with new living spaces where languages and cultures converge. Drawing on the theories of transcultural and transidiomatic practices (Jacquemet, 2005; Pennycook, 2007), this article…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Rural to Urban Migration