English in Nordic Universities

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Ideologies and practices

Anna Kristina Hultgren Frans Gregersen Jacob Thøgersen(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 24. Oktober 2014

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English in Nordic Universities
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
1. Introduction: English at Nordic universities
1. Introduction
2. The roles of universities: Then and now
3. Universities in change: Linguistic consequences and tensions
4. Purpose of the volume: Contrasting ideologies and practices
5. Ideologies and practices: How can they be studied?
6. The Nordic countries: Similarities and differences
7. Structure and outline of the book
References
2. Parallel languages in the history of language ideology in Norway
1. Introduction
2. Language planning in Norway
3. The Norwegian lesson
4. English takes centre stage
5. The voice of higher education policy
6. Back to the future or lesson learned?
References
Appendix 1
3. Language planning in practice in the Norwegian higher education sector
1. Introduction
2. Status planning in practice
2.1 Research and academic writing
2.2 Teaching and learning
3. Corpus and acquisition planning in practice
3.1 Corpus planning: terminology and elaboration
3.2 Acquisition planning in practice
4. Conclusion
References
4. Language ideology and shifting representations of linguistic threats
1. Introduction
1.1 Approaching the objects
2. Re-reading history
2.1 The field of language planning
2.2 Swenglish - language ideologies from the '60s to the '80s
2.3 Domain loss - language ideologies of the '90s and onwards
2.4 Language ideology, market, and habitus
3. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
5. Zooming in on language practices in Swedish higher education
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical and empirical approaches to language practice in Sweden
2.1 Normative studies on institutional practices
2.2 A study on individuals' exposure to English at Stockholm University
2.3 A study on classroom practice
3. Discussion
4. Conclusion
References
6. Language ideologies in Finnish higher education in the national and international context
1. Introduction
2. Historical overview of the Finnish HE system from a language perspective
3. Current language legislation
3.1 Finnish language legislation: Constitutionalist bilingualism as societal bilingualism
3.2 University legislation
4. Data and methodology
5. Internationalisation and its implications for language in higher education policy: two cases
5.1 Case 1: National vs. international, and language in Finnish igher education
5.2 Case 2: English and internationalisation of Finnish higher education
6. Conclusions
References
7. Local majority and minority languages and English in the university
1. Introduction
2. Tensions between de jure and de facto language policies of the university
3. Data and analytical framework
4. The local languages and English at the university
4.1 A few case studies: Different responsibilities, different practices
4.2 Ambivalence and tensions in the practices
5. Outlining a Nordic typology of university language policies
6. Conclusion and outlook
References
8. Ideologies in Iceland: The protection of language forms
1. Introduction
2. Icelandic language ideologies and national policies
3. Internationalization at universities in Iceland
4. Language policies at Icelandic universities
5. Conclusion
References
9. English at the University of Iceland
1. Introduction
2. The status and use of English in Iceland
3. English as a subject in secondary schools
4. Students and the use of English at university
5. Instructors and the use of English at university
6. Using English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP)
7. Conclusions
References
10. Language ideologies in Danish higher education
1. Introduction
1.1 Investigating language ideologies in a transient multilingual community
2. Background and research interest
2.1 The present language situation at Danish universities
2.2 Research interest
3. Data and analytical focus
4. Analysis: The students' ideas about language
4.1 Competence in English
4.2 "Native English" voices vs. other English voices
5. Discussion
6. Final remarks
Transcription conventions
References
11. Linguistic realities at the University of Copenhagen
1. Introduction
2. Participants and data
3. Language choice and use by international academics at UCHP
3.1 "Danish is often helpful, but not really required"
3.2 "Everybody speaks English"
3.3 Where else do you speak or write Danish?
3.4 Experienced difficulties with Danish in job situations
4. Discussion
5. Some possible conclusions
References
12. Epilogue: English from above and below, and from outside
1. Internationalization as threat and malpractice vs. benchmark and virtue
2. The use of English as a prerequisite of internationalization
3. Production vs. dissemination vs. education in English
4. The communicative potential of English in the world and in the Nordic countries
5. The success of the English hegemonic project in the Nordic countries
References
Index of topics

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