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Students’ Representations of Multilingualism and Internationalization at Two Bilingual Universities in Spain

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Transcultural Interaction and Linguistic Diversity in Higher Education

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Knight (1997) defines the process of internationalization at the institutional level as the process of incorporating an international dimension into the teaching, research and service functions of the institution. However, the specific actions and policies that make up the process of internationalization at tertiary institutions are conditioned by the stakeholders, the goals to be achieved, the rationale, the resources and the individual institutions themselves (Callan, 1998, p. 44). For example, in homogeneous societies where nation-building is a priority, internationalization tends to take place at home primarily, that is to say, the main concern is the internationalization of the campus (Chan & Dimmock, 2008). For these universities, the process of internationalization encompasses not only the creation of study abroad programs and the establishment of some overseas partnerships, but also the internationalization of the curriculum and the creation of environments in which a foreign language is used on campus through the implementation of Multilingualism Programmes. Under these programmes, non-language subjects are taught through a foreign language, generally English, with two objectives, namely learning the subject matter and learning the language.

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    Enric Llurda

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Llurda, E., Doiz, A., Sierra, J.M. (2015). Students’ Representations of Multilingualism and Internationalization at Two Bilingual Universities in Spain. In: Fabricius, A.H., Preisler, B. (eds) Transcultural Interaction and Linguistic Diversity in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137397478_5

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