Emplacing English as lingua franca in international higher education: A spatial perspective on linguistic diversity
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
Standard
Emplacing English as lingua franca in international higher education : A spatial perspective on linguistic diversity. / Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine; Juul-Wiese, Thilde; Madsen, Lene Møller; Saarinen, Taina; Spangler, Vera; Waters, Johanna L.
I: Population, Space and Place, Bind 29, Nr. 2, e2619, 2023.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Author
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
T1 - Emplacing English as lingua franca in international higher education
T2 - A spatial perspective on linguistic diversity
AU - Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine
AU - Juul-Wiese, Thilde
AU - Madsen, Lene Møller
AU - Saarinen, Taina
AU - Spangler, Vera
AU - Waters, Johanna L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Population, Space and Place published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Within higher education, internationalisation is increasingly important for students and academics alike. In this context, English as the lingua franca has gained prominence. The ostensible ubiquity of English rests on a particular rendering of the language as unitary, fixed, and undifferentiated. In this paper, we challenge this notion of English and use a spatial approach to explore the multiplicity of Englishes on display within the higher education context. Increasingly, within higher education outside Anglophone countries, English Medium Instruction (EMI) is seen as a crucial indicator of internationalisation: the term ‘international programmes' is often used as a proxy for programmes taught in English. Hence, the aim of this paper is to explore the role of English in internationalisation of higher education, and to show how a spatial approach can illuminate what English means and how it is experienced in its multiple and shifting forms. We examine Danish higher education to explore the multiple usages of English amongst so-called ‘native' and ‘nonnative' speakers and show the spatial and hierarchical complexity of language. We suggest that a spatial perspective on English in the context of international higher education can help nuance debates about internationalisation and language in important ways – there is not one, but multiple forms of English, displayed at different times and in different places, with differing effects in the creation of spatial hierarchies.
AB - Within higher education, internationalisation is increasingly important for students and academics alike. In this context, English as the lingua franca has gained prominence. The ostensible ubiquity of English rests on a particular rendering of the language as unitary, fixed, and undifferentiated. In this paper, we challenge this notion of English and use a spatial approach to explore the multiplicity of Englishes on display within the higher education context. Increasingly, within higher education outside Anglophone countries, English Medium Instruction (EMI) is seen as a crucial indicator of internationalisation: the term ‘international programmes' is often used as a proxy for programmes taught in English. Hence, the aim of this paper is to explore the role of English in internationalisation of higher education, and to show how a spatial approach can illuminate what English means and how it is experienced in its multiple and shifting forms. We examine Danish higher education to explore the multiple usages of English amongst so-called ‘native' and ‘nonnative' speakers and show the spatial and hierarchical complexity of language. We suggest that a spatial perspective on English in the context of international higher education can help nuance debates about internationalisation and language in important ways – there is not one, but multiple forms of English, displayed at different times and in different places, with differing effects in the creation of spatial hierarchies.
KW - Denmark
KW - English
KW - internationalisation
KW - language
KW - lingua franca
KW - space
U2 - 10.1002/psp.2619
DO - 10.1002/psp.2619
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85139847160
VL - 29
JO - Population, Space and Place
JF - Population, Space and Place
SN - 1544-8444
IS - 2
M1 - e2619
ER -
ID: 323990617