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 (1/2)
08:30 – 09:10: Marie Källkvist & Francis Hult
09:10 – 09:25: Maria Kuteeva
09:25 – 09:50: Kumiko Murata & Masakazu Iino
09:50 – 10:00: Claudine Brohy, Iris Schaller-Schwaner & Andy Kirkpatrick
10:00 – 10:30: Coffee (with online interaction)
10:30 – 10:45: Kathrin Kaufhold
10:45 – 11:10: Wanyu Amy Ou & Mingyue Michelle Gu
11:10 – 11:35: Dragana Cvetanovic, Heini Lehtonen, Åsa Mickwitz & Auli Toom
11:35 – 11:45: Anta Kursiša, Anne Huhtala & Marjo Vesalainen
11:45 – 11:55: Lídia Gallego Balsà & Josep Cots
11:55 – 12:00: Additional discussion time
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 (1/2)08:30 – 09:10: Marie Källkvist & Francis Hult09:10 – 09:25: Maria Kuteeva09:25 – 09:50: Kumiko Murata & Masakazu Iino09:50 – 10:00: Claudine Brohy, Iris Schaller-Schwaner & Andy Kirkpatrick10:00 &nda ...
Room 1 AILA 2021 aila2021@gcb.nl
Marie Källkvist
Maria Kuteeva
Claudine Brohy
Iris Schaller-Schwaner
Andy Kirkpatrick
Kathrin Kaufhold
Wanyu Amy Ou
Michelle Mingyue Gu
Dragana Cvetanovic
Heini Lehtonen
Anta Kursiša
Lidia Balsà
Josep M. CotsTechnical Issues?
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