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AUTHOR
Heidi Rontu
What about Swedish?
The chapter discusses discourses of “language” indexing social tasks of universities. We are interested in how talk of “language” is used to index the political, economic, educational, cultural etc. nature of higher education; in other words, what we talk about when we think we talk about language. We are mainly focusing on the position Swedish in the tensions of national language policies, higher education policies and internationalisation. In the chapter, we show the various ways in which higher education policies and language policies are intertwined, producing both intended and unintended language policy outcomes. peerReviewed
University language policies : How does Finnish constitutional bilingualism meet the needs for internationalisation in English?
In this article, we discuss the position of Finnish constitutional bilingualism in higher education in the context of internationalisation in English, by focusing on two universities: one dominantly monolingual (Finnish), one dominantly bilingual (Finnish–Swedish); in addition, both teach in English. This article investigates how discourses around language choices (language policy documents, selected staff and student interviews) construe these universities as monolingual, bilingual or trilingual, and what these discourses say about the universities as organisations themselves. Results suggest that, although lack of clarity remains regarding language choices in many practical situations, Fi…
Korkeakoulutetut monikielisiä ja aidosti kansainvälisiä?
Yliopistojen tutkintojen laadun ja työmarkkinavetovoimaisuuden tärkeä osatekijä on ollut monipuolinen tarjonta kielten ja kulttuurien osaamisessa. Nyt monet yliopistot ovat kohdentaneet resurssileikkauksensa kielikoulutukseen, joka eräissä yliopistoissa supistuu rajusti. Tämä on oudolla tavalla ristiriidassa työelämän kasvavien kieli-, kulttuuri-, ja viestintäosaamistarpeiden kanssa. nonPeerReviewed