Dr. Adriana Díaz - Internationalization of Higher Education Through a Languages Lens

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About the Lecture:
The current higher education landscape is characterized by a strong ‘Anglophone asymmetry’ in which four English-speaking countries (the US, UK, Australia and Canada) are destinations to over 50% of the students studying abroad (in situ and online). While universities in these countries market their campuses’ population diversity as a key point of attraction, they turn a blind eye to their linguistic diversity when it comes to engagement with scholarly discourses (e.g., academic writing) and different ways of knowing (e.g., canon of research and research methodologies). In this Masterclass I discuss the current hegemonic, epistemologically imbalanced, monolingualising ideologies that characterize this eduscape. In so doing, I articulate the ways in which a focus on language and language policies may illuminate different understandings of internationalisation processes and enable us to consider potential reconfigurations of epistemologies. I conclude by posing a number of questions that point to the ongoing struggle we face in the process of pluralising linguistic and epistemological practices in higher education.
About the Speaker:
Adriana Diaz (she/her) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina but has now lived over half her life in Meanjin, also known as Brisbane, on the unceded lands of the Yuggera and Turrbal Peoples. For nearly two decades, she has been involved in teaching across Applied Linguistics, English, Italian, and Spanish language programs in Australian higher education.
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To engage further with this topic, Dr. Díaz suggests the following readings:
1.- Guimarães, F. F., Finardi, K. R., & Casotti, J. B. C. (2019). Internationalization and language policies in Brazil: What is the relationship? Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 19, 295-327.
2.- Bonacina-Pugh, F., Barakos, E., & Chen, Q. (2020). Language policy in the internationalisation of Higher Education in Anglophone countries: The interplay between language policy as ‘text’, ‘discourse’ and ‘practice’. Applied Linguistics Review. doi.org/10.151...
3.- Bennett, K. (2015). Towards an epistemological monoculture: Mechanisms of epistemicide in European research publication. In R. Plo Alastrué & C. Pérez-Llantada (Eds.), English as a scientific and research language: Debates and discourses (pp. 9-36). Walter de Gruyter.
4.- Díaz, A. R. (2018a). Stretching the global imaginaries of internationalisation: The critical role of languages education. In Abe W. Ata, Ly Thi Tran and Indika Liyanage (Ed.), Educational reciprocity and adaptivity: international students and stakeholders (pp. 195-208). Routledge.
5.- Díaz, A. R. (2018b). Challenging dominant epistemologies in higher education: the role of language in the geopolitics of knowledge (re)production. In Indika Liyanage (Ed.), Multilingual Education Yearbook 2018: Internationalization, stakeholders and multilingual education contexts (pp. 21-36). Springer.
6.- Preece, S., & Marshall, S. (2020). Plurilingualism, teaching and learning, and Anglophone higher education: an introduction to Anglophone universities and linguistic diversity. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 33(2), 117-125.
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