Multilingualism and internationalisation in doctoral education: Discourse, positioning and agency

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Despite the growing linguistic and cultural diversity in higher education and research, little is known about how students and researchers use their plurilingual repertoire for writing and publishing. In particular, the roles of the national language(s) and the linguistic repertoire(s) vis-à-vis English as the lingua franca for academic writing and publishing have not been closely examined. This paper explores how doctoral researchers in Luxembourg position themselves in relation to macro-level discourses about language and academic success within their complex lingua-cultural and socio-economic setting. By analysing interview transcripts of two multilingual doctoral researchers from Russia and Germany, I show how in spite of their similar starting situations they negotiate agency to varying degrees. In particular, the prevalence of English and the pressure to publish in international journals seem to make them struggle to use their full linguistic repertoire in writing their theses.

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Hofmann, S. (2020). Multilingualism and internationalisation in doctoral education: Discourse, positioning and agency. European Journal of Applied Linguistics, 8(2), 257–277. https://doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2020-0009

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