Browsing by Subject "Multilingualism"
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Attitudinal patterns of secondary education students in Catalonia. The direct and moderator effects of origin
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-03-31)Language attitudes have become more relevant than ever as a result of the considerable number of immigrant students enrolled in the Catalan educational system and the challenges this entails in terms of promoting social ... -
Can language attitudes be improved? A longitudinal study of immigrant students in Catalonia (Spain)
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-08-14)This study explores changes in attitudes towards Catalan, Spanish, and English over a two-year period, on the part of secondary education students of immigrant origin residing in Catalonia. It aims to provide new data by ... -
Catalan engineering students in Denmark: The impact of an ELF environment on fluency and self-confidence levels
(Equinox Publishing, 2019)This article focuses on the impact of the language policy of a highly internationalized Danish university on two different kinds of exchange engineering students from a mid-size Catalan university: those who attend the ... -
El català dels locutoris: pràctiques i ideologies lingüístiques de la migració en espais urbans castellanoparlants
(Institut d´Estudis Catalans. Societat Catalana de Sociolingüística, 2016-12)Des del camp de la sociolingüística crítica de base etnogràfica, aquest estudi investiga les pràctiques i ideologies lingüístiques entorn del català d'un grup de vint persones multilingües indocumentades que, provinents ... -
Englishisation at a global space: students and staff making sense of language choices
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-04-13)Aquest estudi parteix de la premissa que la mobilitat acadèmica internacional contribueix al desenvolupament de les identitats plurilingües dels estudiants i que les universitats receptores d'aquesta mobilitat que tenen ... -
From "Sorry very much" to "I'm ever so sorry:" Acquisitional patterns in L2 apologies by Catalan learners of English
(Walter de Gruyter, 2007)This paper analyzes the acquisitional stages of L2 apology realizations in response to discourse completion tasks produced in a cross-sectional study by 78 Catalan learners of English at three di¤erent proficiency levels. ... -
Ideologies on multilingual practices at a rural Catalan school
(Equinox publishing, 2009)This ethnographic study analyses ideologies on multilingualism and attitudes toward cultural diversity in a rural Catalan school located in a semirural locality which is undergoing a series of changes linked to the dynamics ... -
International universities and implications of internationalisation for minority languages: views from university students in Catalonia and Wales
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-01-01)European higher education institutions are in general highly committed to internationalisation, seeing it as providing ways into the global education market, as an indicator of academic excellence, and for generating income. ... -
Language and education issues in global Catalonia. Questions and debates across scales of time and space
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Language attitudes of young Romanians in Catalonia (Spain): The role of heritage language maintenance programs
(De Gruyter, 2019-03-19)This article presents a mixed method analysis of the language attitudes held by secondary education students of Romanian origin, which are members of the second largest immigrant population living currently in Catalonia. ... -
Language policy and internationalisation: The experience of international students at a Catalan university
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Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes
(De Gruyter, 2015-07-02)From a critical sociolinguistic perspective, this article investigates the written linguistic practices of 20 labor migrants from heterogeneous backgrounds who organized their life trajectories in an 'ethnic' call shop in ... -
Multilingualism, (im)mobilities and spaces of belonging, Horner, Kristine and Dailey‐O’Cain, Jennifer (Eds.), Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. 2019
(Wiley, 2020-07-19)Ressenya del llibre: Multilingualism, (im)mobilities and spaces of belonging, Horner, Kristine and Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer (eds.), Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. 2019. v–xiii + 246 pp. Hb (9781788925044) £119.95, Ebook ... -
The internationalisation of higher education in two different contexts: Catalan and Estonian sociolinguistic perspectives
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-01-01)In recent years, the topic of the internationalisation of academia has recently attracted attention from sociolinguists and language policy scholars. In this paper, we compare two different universities from two contrasting ... -
"The official language of Telefónica is English": Problematizing the construction of English as a lingua franca in the Spanish telecommunications sector
(The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2012)This article investigates the contradictions around the construction of English as a democratising lingua franca for intercultural communication and business in the Spanish telecommunications sector. From a critical ... -
Views on multilingualism and internationalisation in higher education: administrative staff in the spotlight
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)The key role of administrative staff in the implementation of specific institutional policies at university has often been ignored when analysing policies or attitudes related to higher education. Consequently, little is ...