At universities today, the national language(s) and English as an academic lingua franca are used alongside a plethora of other linguistic resources, including different languages, varieties, codes and registers. Our symposium explores universities as multilingual settings by drawing attention to various, often conflicting, language perceptions and practices alongside the prominence of English in international study programmes and research publication. Language practices are understood here as behaviour or activity in relation to specific language regimes. The symposium problematises language boundaries and dominant perceptions of standards and norms and seeks to provide empirical evidence for 'polycentric systems of norms' (Blommaert 2010) within the rather conservative field of higher education. Our scope includes language perceptions and ideologies linking to societal issues, policies on the institutional level, and implications for individuals' repertoires on the personal level. We invite papers addressing the following issues: 1) tensions concerning monolingualism versus multilingualism on the institutional level; 2) the dialectics between perceiving and experiencing "language(s)" versus "languaging", i.e. between languages as separable objects and translingual practices; 3) the specificity of language uses at universities from the perspectives of different stakeholders, e.g. students, teachers, researchers and administrators; 4) language-regulatory mechanisms and practices related to the production of mono/multilingualism.
S169 (2/2)
14:30 – 14:55: Guillaume Gentil & Jeremie Seror
14:55 – 15:20: Anna Solin & Hanna-Mari Pienimäki
15:20 – 15:45: Irina Shchemeleva
15:45 – 15:55: Monika Dannerer
15:55 – 16:05: Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö & Johanna Enqvist
16:05 – 16:30: Coffee (with online interaction)
16:30 – 16:55: Slobodanka Dimova & Joyce Kling
16:55 – 17:20: Luke Holmes
17:30 – 18:00: Featured speaker: Taina Saarinen
18:00 – 19:00: Drinks (with online interaction)
At universities today, the national language(s) and English as an academic lingua franca are used alongside a plethora of other linguistic resources, including different languages, varieties, codes and registers. Our symposium explores universities as multilingual settings by drawing attention to various, often conflicting, language perceptions and practices alongside the prominence of English in international study programmes and research publication. Language practices are understood here as behaviour or activity in relation to specific language regimes. The symposium problematises language boundaries and dominant perceptions of standards and norms and seeks to provide empirical evidence for 'polycentric systems of norms' (Blommaert 2010) within the rather conservative field of higher education. Our scope includes language perceptions and ideologies linking to societal issues, policies on the institutional level, and implications for individuals' repertoires on the personal level. We invite papers addressing the following issues: 1) tensions concerning monolingualism versus multilingualism on the institutional level; 2) the dialectics between perceiving and experiencing "language(s)" versus "languaging", i.e. between languages as separable objects and translingual practices; 3) the specificity of language uses at universities from the perspectives of different stakeholders, e.g. students, teachers, researchers and administrators; 4) language-regulatory mechanisms and practices related to the production of mono/multilingualism.
S169 (2/2)14:30 – 14:55: Guillaume Gentil & Jeremie Seror14:55 – 15:20: Anna Solin & Hanna-Mari Pienimäki15:20 – 15:45: Irina Shchemeleva15:45 – 15:55: Monika Dannerer15:55 – 16:05: Tiina Onikki-Rantajää ...
Room 1 AILA 2021 aila2021@gcb.nl
Guillaume Gentil
Jeremie Seror
Anna Solin
Hanna-Mari Pienimäki
Irina Shchemeleva
Monika Dannerer
Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö
Slobodanka Dimova
Joyce Kling
Luke Holmes
Taina SaarinenTechnical Issues?
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