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Studying in a 'multilingual university' at home or abroad: perspectives of home and international students in the Basque Country, Catalonia and Wales
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The relatively recent phenomenon of the internationalisation of higher education (HE) in European non-English-speaking universities has resulted in more linguistically diverse student bodies and has forced universities in bilingual territories to reconsider their language policies. In this paper, we adopt a student perspective in order to explore the notion of a multilingual university in the bilingual territories of Catalonia, Wales and the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC). This also includes looking at how the students view the relationship and possible tensions between internationalisation (and its concomitant student mobility) and the language policies. In order to investigate the attitudes and beliefs of the students (both home and international) in connection with the notion of a multilingual university, we asked them to complete an open-ended questionnaire item regarding the advantages and disadvantages they see in such an institution. The results of the analysis point, in the first place, to different perceptions among students of a multilingual university depending on (i) whether English is the main or even sole means of instruction, and (ii) the perceived status of the minority language. Secondly, the analysis suggests the need to approach students’ attitudes towards a multilingual university by considering the ways in which the sociolinguistic context (in official, academic and experiential terms) may have an impact on their perception of the process of multilingualisation in universities.
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P Philology. Linguistics; PB1001 Celtic languages and literature; PC Romance languages
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1075/sar.1.2.01cot
http://orca.cf.ac.uk/95641/
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International universities and implications for minority languages: views from university students in Catalonia and Wales
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Language policies and practices in the internationalisation of higher education on the European margins: an introduction
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Internacionalización y multilingüismo en universidades en contextos bilingües: algunos resultados de un proyecto de investigación
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Multilingual policies and practices of universities in three bilingual regions in Europe
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Internationalisation and the place of minority languages in universities in three European bilingual contexts: a comparison of student perspectives in the Basque Country, Catalonia and Wales
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Teenagers' perceptions of communication and "good communication" with peers, young adults, and older adults
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Linguistic Landscapes, Discursive Frames and Metacultural Performance: The Case of Welsh Patagonia
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Age-category boundaries and social identity strategies: Moving the goalposts
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Diasporic ethnolinguistic subjectivities: Patagonia, North America, and Wales
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Attitudes in Japan and China towards Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, UK and US Englishes
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Looking forward and looking back: Young adults’ and teenagers’ reports of their communication experiences with peers and age ‘outgroups’
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What does the word 'globalisation' mean to you? Comparative perceptions and evaluations in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and the UK
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Imagining Wales and the Welsh language: Ethnolinguistic subjectivities and demographic flow
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Conceptual accent evaluation: thirty years of accent prejudice in the UK
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