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Language as a Vehicle or as a Resource? Exploring the Nature of Metalinguistic Reflection in Plurilingual Consciousness-Raising Tasks
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Nina Woll; Pierre-Luc Paquet; Isabelle Wouters – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
While studies have shown that additional language (Lx) learners build on knowledge of previously acquired languages (Ringbom 2007), the natural interaction between languages is rarely exploited in Lx classrooms. This study explores the nature of metalinguistic reflections and crosslinguistic connections during plurilingual consciousness-raising…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, German, Second Language Learning
Learning and Communication in Online International Higher Education in Hong Kong: ICT-Mediated Translanguaging Competence and Virtually Translocal Identity
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Amy Wanyu Ou; Mingyue Michelle Gu; John Chi-Kin Lee – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This qualitative study investigated the impact of online education on the learning and peer interaction experiences of students from eight universities in Hong Kong over the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It employed an expansive and spatial notion of translanguaging to explore the process by which students drew on the affordance of virtual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, International Education, Semiotics
Elite Bilingual Identities in Higher Education in the Anglophone World: The Stratification of Linguistic Diversity and Reproduction of Socio-Economic Inequalities in the Multilingual Student Population
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Preece, Siân – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
As universities in the Anglophone world attend to operating on a global stage, linguistic diversity in the sector has intensified. Historically, higher education has adopted language-as-problem orientations to managing linguistic diversity, viewing multilingual repertoires largely as an obstacle. An emerging body of work informed by…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Higher Education, Multilingualism