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Kubota, Ryuko – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
The impact of neoliberalism on language education has recently attracted scholars' attention. Linguistic entrepreneurship is a conceptual lens through which neoliberal implications for language learning and use can be investigated. This commentary offers comments on common threads of themes running through the four articles in this special issue.…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Manan, Syed Abdul; Haidar, Sham; Amin, Rooh UI – Language and Education, 2023
This study demonstrates how stakeholders' treatment of English language as the sole marketable/saleable commodity in educational setting can have implications for multilingualism and existing linguistic diversity in Pakistan. Language commodification refers to the valuation of languages as marketable/saleable commodities and their relative…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lee, Minho – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Many Christian universities in Korea are pursuing the globalization of Christian higher education to promote maximization of institutional competition, improvement of students' English skills, and enhancement of professors' research development through English Medium Instruction (EMI). EMI's flaws in application are not at all uncommon, as many of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
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Gallego-Balsà, Lídia; Cots, Josep M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
This paper explores the impact of the tourism discourse on the self-representation strategies that a university in Catalonia adopts towards international students, and the extent to which these strategies connect with the stance of international students towards their study-abroad experience. The data were ethnographically collected during the…
Descriptors: International Education, Tourism, Content Analysis, Romance Languages