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Holliday, Adrian – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Interviews with a small group of doctoral students at a British university indicate that the students feel that the programme provides an environment within which they develop interculturality through reflexive engagement with the PhD community and in some cases with the participants in their research. Significant here is that they are…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, International Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Werther, Charlotte; Denver, Louise; Jensen, Christian; Mees, Inger M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
More than 25% of the master's degrees in Denmark are taught using English as a medium of instruction (EMI), but not all university lecturers feel they have the appropriate academic English proficiency to meet the standard required. Based on interviews conducted at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS), this article sheds light on the challenges…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Jiang, Mei; Green, Raymond J.; Henley, Tracy B.; Masten, William G. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Learners who begin to acquire a second language (L2) in a naturalistic environment after puberty are thought to be constrained by biological age factors and to have greater difficulty obtaining native-like L2. However, the extant literature suggests that L2 acquisition may be positively affected by post-maturational factors, such as acculturation.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Acculturation, Puberty