Language perceptions and practices in multilingual universities
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1: Introduction: Language Perceptions and Practices in Multilingual Universities
- 1 Whose Language First?
- 2 Where One Language Ends and Another Begins: Monolingualism and Multilingualism at Universities
- 3 What a Language Means: Language Ideologies and Discourses of Language Use
- 4 Methodological Diversity in the Contributions
- 5 Overview of Chapters
- 6 What's Next?
- References
- Part I: Tensions Between Monolingualism and Multilingualism on the National and Institutional Levels
- 2: If Not English, Then What? Unpacking Language Hierarchies at University
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 3 Method
- 4 Results
- 4.1 Discourses Concerning the Use of Languages Other Than English and Swedish
- 4.1.1 "Epistemic Monolingualism": Insufficient Access to Knowledge Generated Outside the Anglophone World
- 4.1.2 "(Wishful) Academic Multilingualism": Using or Learning Other Academic Languages
- 4.1.3 "Deficient Multilingualism": Perceived Lack of Linguistic Resources in Swedish and/or English Among Specific Groups of L2 Users
- 4.2 What Languages Constitute a Symbolic Capital at a Multilingual University?
- 5 Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- 3: Multilingualism as Problem or Resource? Negotiating Space for Languages Other Than Swedish and English in University Language Planning
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Language as Problem, Right or Resource
- 3 The Study
- 4 The Language Policy Committee and Its Charge
- 5 Discourses in Place and Named Languages
- 6 Language(s) as Problem
- 7 Language(s) as Resource
- 8 Discussion and Concluding Remarks
- References
- 4: Tensions on Finnish Constitutional Bilingualism in Neo-nationalist Times: Constructions of Swedish in Monolingual and Bilingual Contexts
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Method and Analysis
- 3 Societal and Higher Education Policy Backdrop
- 3.1 Internationalization: Discourses of National Competitiveness
- 3.2 Language Policies of Finnish Universities and Its Implications to Higher Education Policy
- 4 Swedish in Higher Education Settings
- 4.1 "Everyone speaks their own language". Monolingual and Bilingual with English on Top
- 4.2 "We need to use English". Role of Staff and Student Recruitment
- 4.3 Profiling of Higher Education Institutions: Higher Education Policy or Language Policy as Motivation?
- 5 From Being Contested to Being Invisible: Discussion of Swedish in Finnish Higher Education
- References
- 5: Redesigning the Curriculum to Develop Multilingual Academic Literacies: An Analysis of Language Conceptualizations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 3 Data and Analysis