Reflecting the increased use of English as lingua franca in today’s university education, this volume maps the interplay and competition between English and other tongues in a learning community that in practice is not only bilingual but multilingual. The volume includes case studies from Japan, Australia, South Africa, Germany, Catalonia, China, Denmark and Sweden, analysing a range of issues such as the conflict between the students’ native languages and English, the reality of parallel teaching in English as well as in the local language, and classrooms that are nominally English-speaking but multilingual in practice. The book assesses the factors common to successful bilingual learners, and provides university administrators, policy makers and teachers around the world with a much-needed commentary on the challenges they face in increasingly multilingual surroundings characterized by a heterogeneous student population. Patterns of language alternation and choice have become increasingly important to the development of an understanding of the internationalisation of higher education that is occurring world-wide. This volume draws on the extensive and varied literature related to the sociolinguistics of globalisation – linguistic ethnography, discourse analysis, language teaching, language and identity, and language planning – as the theoretical bases for the description of the nature of these emerging multilingual communities that are increasingly found in international education. It uses observational data from eleven studies that take into account the macro (societal), meso (university) and micro (participant) levels of language interaction to explicate the range of language encounters – highlighting both successful and problematic interactions and their related language ideologies. Although English is the common lingua franca, the studies in the volume highlight the importance of the multilingual resources available to participants in higher educational institutions that are used to negotiate and solve their language problems. The volume brings to our attention a range of important insights into language issues found in the internationalisation of higher education, and provides a resource for those wishing to understand or do research on how language hybridity and multilingual communicative practices are evolving there. Richard B. Baldauf Jr., Professor, The University of Queensland
PUBLISHED BY: SpringerDATE PUBLISHED: 2013-07-10CITY: GENRE: EDUCATION / Language Experience Approach, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / GeneralWIDTH: 155 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Linguistics, Language teaching and learning, Educational strategies and policy
From the reviews:“Each chapter offers an interesting analysis of language use and negotiation, and together, the volume presents a complete depiction of the linguistic diversity of the international university. … this volume would be quite accessible to researchers, educators, and students … . The contributions to the book are thoughtfully organized into parts, which could make this volume a good choice as a text for perhaps a seminar or other compartmentalized course.” (Cecily Brainerd Corbett, THE LINGUIST LIST, March, 2014)
Hartmut Haberland is Professor in German Language and the Sociolinguistics of Globalization at Roskilde University, Denmark, and the leader of the research group An Ethnography of Language Encounters: Language and Interaction in the Globalized Corporation (LINGCORP). He founded the Journal of Pragmatics with Jacob Mey in 1977 and is presently co-editor of Pragmatics and Society and Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. His current research interest is in the pragmatics and sociolinguistics of multilingualism. Dorte Lønsmann is an Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School and a member of the LINGCORP research group. Her research interests include English as a global language, language ideologies and language choice. She wrote her PhD thesis on the use of English as a corporate language in Danish companies and has also published on language and identity in the computer gaming subculture. She currently investigates language ideologies and social categorisation in multilingual workplaces. Bent Preisler is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Sociolinguistics at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is the founder and former director of the international research center for the study of Cultural and Linguistic Practices in the International University (CALPIU). Research includes works on the structure and functions of English, English as an international language and its influence on other languages. Author of a book, in Danish, on “The Danes and the English language” (1999).
Reflecting the increased use of English as lingua franca in today’s university education, this volume maps the interplay and competition between English and other tongues in a learning community that in practice is not only bilingual but multilingual. The volume includes case studies from Japan, Australia, South Africa, Germany, Catalonia, China, Denmark and Sweden, analysing a range of issues such as the conflict between the students’ native languages and English, the reality of parallel teaching in English as well as in the local language, and classrooms that are nominally English-speaking but multilingual in practice. The book assesses the factors common to successful bilingual learners, and provides university administrators, policy makers and teachers around the world with a much-needed commentary on the challenges they face in increasingly multilingual surroundings characterized by a heterogeneous student population. Patterns of language alternation and choice have become increasingly important to the development of an understanding of the internationalisation of higher education that is occurring world-wide. This volume draws on the extensive and varied literature related to the sociolinguistics of globalisation – linguistic ethnography, discourse analysis, language teaching, language and identity, and language planning – as the theoretical bases for the description of the nature of these emerging multilingual communities that are increasingly found in international education. It uses observational data from eleven studies that take into account the macro (societal), meso (university) and micro (participant) levels of language interaction to explicate the range of language encounters – highlighting both successful and problematic interactions and their related language ideologies. Although English is the common lingua franca, the studies in the volume highlight the importance of the multilingual resources available to participants in higher educational institutions that are used to negotiate and solve their language problems. The volume brings to our attention a range of important insights into language issues found in the internationalisation of higher education, and provides a resource for those wishing to understand or do research on how language hybridity and multilingual communicative practices are evolving there. Richard B. Baldauf Jr., Professor, The University of Queensland
Hartmut Haberland is Professor in German Language and the Sociolinguistics of Globalization at Roskilde University, Denmark, and the leader of the research group An Ethnography of Language Encounters: Language and Interaction in the Globalized Corporation (LINGCORP). He founded the Journal of Pragmatics with Jacob Mey in 1977 and is presently co-editor of Pragmatics and Society and Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. His current research interest is in the pragmatics and sociolinguistics of multilingualism. Dorte Lønsmann is an Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School and a member of the LINGCORP research group. Her research interests include English as a global language, language ideologies and language choice. She wrote her PhD thesis on the use of English as a corporate language in Danish companies and has also published on language and identity in the computer gaming subculture. She currently investigates language ideologies and social categorisation in multilingual workplaces. Bent Preisler is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Sociolinguistics at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is the founder and former director of the international research center for the study of Cultural and Linguistic Practices in the International University (CALPIU). Research includes works on the structure and functions of English, English as an international language and its influence on other languages. Author of a book, in Danish, on “The Danes and the English language” (1999).
An amazing and detailed depiction of war, loss, survival and finding love despite it all. The characters are well fleshed out and flawed but deeply relatable. The actual story and premise of the book is brilliant, with plot twists you would never expect. Devastating and beautiful.
Bittersoet liefdesverhaal van onwaarskynlike pasmaats wat mekaar vind
Klopdans vir die hart, die nuwe Romanza uit die pen van René van Zyl, kon net so wel in die Inspirasie-subgenre tuis gewees het. Nie alleen is dit ’n bittersoet liefdesverhaal van twee onwaarskynlike pasmaats wat mekaar oor die loop van ’n week leer ken nie. Dit is ook vir Caitlin ’n ondersoekende reis na die Here, ’n proses om lewenslange verwerping en liefdeloosheid te bowe te kom.
Om dit ’n reisverhaal te noem, maak egter ook goeie sin. Caitlin en Aiden word deur die dominerende en hartelose matriarg van die Fitzgeralds, Ierland toe gestuur vir ’n wegbreek vir paartjies. Anders as wat dikwels gebeur wanneer die toneel verskuif na ’n ander land, word die leser hier nie verveel met eindelose skilder van die omgewing nie. Inteendeel, die bekoorlike omgewing word geïnkorporeer in die program van die wegbreekweek. Elke leser kan baie leer oor die huwelik uit die leidrade wat byvoorbeeld verskaf word vir die fietsreis deur die omgewing.
René van Zyl se liefde vir en kennis van Ierland, kastele en katedrale skemer deur in die oortuigende storielyn. So ook spreek die toneel van ’n pa en ’n gestremde seun uit eie ervaring.
As jy hierdie Romanza van Lapa Uitgewers aankoop, hetsy in gedrukte of e-formaat, sal dit geld baie goed gespandeer wees. Ek kan waarborg dat jy nie onaangeraak sal wees nie.
