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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23334| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | English in Swiss higher education : the pragmatic way |
| Authors: | Studer, Patrick Siddiqa, Aisha |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.5117/9789463727358 10.21256/zhaw-23334 |
| Published in: | The Englishization of Higher Education in Europe |
| Editors of the parent work: | Wilkinson, Robert Gabriëls, René |
| Page(s): | 121 |
| Pages to: | 142 |
| Issue Date: | 20-Oct-2021 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Amsterdam University Press |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Amsterdam |
| ISBN: | 978-94-6372-735-8 978-90-4855-391-4 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Internationalisation; Englishization; Higher education; Language policy |
| Subject (DDC): | 378: Higher education |
| Abstract: | This chapter reviews the current discourses surrounding English in higher education, focusing on the impact Englishization has had on education and language policy-planning in Switzerland. While English is in direct competition with national languages at the obligatory school levels, and the debate about the status of English is evident in national language policymaking, higher education institutes (henceforth HEIs) have taken a pragmatic approach, broadening their educational offerings to include English-medium courses and programmes at all levels. Taking legal, strategy and policy documents as its basis, this chapter discusses themes that impact thinking about language in higher education in a small multilingual nation and reviews how the language question has been addressed by policymakers at the national and institutional levels. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/23334 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial - No derivatives 4.0 International |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Language Competence (ILC) |
| Published as part of the ZHAW project: | High-impact measures for the comprehensive internationalisation of curricula in Switzerland |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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