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Internationalization and Multilingualism: Integration or Disintegration?

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The phenomena of flourishing mobility and transnationalism that characterise internationalization of universities is opening up unprecedented (multi)lingual and social possibilities. A mutual dependency of integrating and disintegrating tendencies underlies the ascendance of a multilingualism with English (Hoffman, 2000) that is indispensable to internationalization and that is the major currency of the current knowledge economy. While for some this ascendance threatens to overpower and devalue language and knowledge practices in some historically multilingual settings, from the perspective of post-monolingual re-conceptualizations of language, internationalization of higher education is generating diverse sites and modes of multilingual activities in the increasingly borderless and mobile lives of academics, university staff, and students, and is accelerating the dispersal of ‘English’ as situation-specific intersubjective communicative resources for activities in multilingual settings. These phenomena have not only opened up new spaces for multilingual interactions, they are forging new conceptions of what it means to be multilingual. This chapter explores these spaces and conceptions.

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Walker, T. (2018). Internationalization and Multilingualism: Integration or Disintegration?. In: Liyanage, I. (eds) Multilingual Education Yearbook 2018. Multilingual Education Yearbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77655-2_9

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