The Multilingual University: The impact of linguistic diversity in higher education in English-dominant and EMI contexts ESRC seminar series
Final conference: The linguistic landscape in higher education in English dominant and EMI settings: Future directions
Friday 8 July, 9.30-18.30 & Saturday 9 July 2016, 9.30-16.00
UCL Institute of Education
Despite an established body of knowledge on linguistic diversity and bi/multilingual learners in compulsory and complementary schooling, there is little established knowledge on linguistic diversity in higher education in English-dominant and EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction) settings. All too often the linguistic diversity brought about by a culturally diverse staff and student population is ignored or treated as a problem to be fixed rather than as a resource for enriching the sector and for fostering a vibrant and fair society and intercultural understanding. In the concluding conference in the ESRC’s
The Multilingual University
seminar series, we will pull together issues arising from the seminar series related to language policies, practices, identities and ideologies in linguistically diverse contexts in higher education in English-dominant and EMI settings under the seminar themes of internationalisation, widening participation and language revitalisation. We will discuss current and future avenues of research for examining, maintaining, fostering and raising the visibility of linguistic diversity in higher education in the Anglophone world and in EMI settings and for illuminating the idea of the ‘multilingual university’ in these contexts. The conference will showcase examples of research and practice in which linguistic diversity is used as a resource.
Keynote speakers: Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country UPV/ EHU) & Durk Gorter (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU; IKERBASQUE – Basque Foundation for Science), Kristina Hultgren (Open University), Karen M; Lauridsen (Aarhus University & IntlUni Coordinator) & Steve Marshall (Simon Fraser University)
Further details of the speakers, abstracts and programme can be found on the seminar series website at https://multilingualuniversity.wordpress.com