LANGUAGE, EDUCATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM: AN INTRODUCTION

Abstract

Transnational population flows are not new, and despite their treatment in international media as a malign force, are not indicative of a rupture in the human psyche. Since the beginning of time, human populations have followed resources to ensure their survival. Based on interviews and writing samples from international students enrolled in an English for Academic Purposes programme, the authors draw out the tension between, on one hand, students' subtle biases toward inner-circle English language norms and, on the other, their own frustrations with conforming to normative academic principles that they see as one sided and exclusivist. Returning to the domain of academic writing in third-level education, Suzanne Mizen's article, "Transnational imaginaries of emerging identities in English teacher education in a period of accommodation to social change in Brazilian Higher Education" points out that transnational identities can emerge without any prerequisite movement across borders. The effect of maternal language on bilingual children's Vocabulary and emergent literacy development during Head Start and Kindergarten.