Internationalisation is a key word for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Germany. It also encompasses mobility policies in order to increase the numbers of incoming international students from all over the world as well as the numbers of outgoing national students. For this reason, English as lingua franca/lingua academica is becoming the language of teaching and communication in German international university courses more and more. The authors argue that this attitude often labelled as English only neither mirrors nor exploits the vast multilingual repertoires of today’s societies in general and European HEIs in particular. Nevertheless, building truly inclusive (scientific) communities deeply committed to democratic and pluralistic principles allowing participation for all citoyennes and citoyens needs to encompass our multilingual and multicultural realities. Anchoring the concept of functional multilingualism in the institution’s internationalisation and languages strategies, the Technical University Darmstadt serves as an example of a German HEI following multilingual paths beyond German and English.
{"title":"Das Konzept der funktionalen Mehrsprachigkeit im Kontext der Internationalisierung deutscher Hochschulen","authors":"Constanze Bradlaw, Britta Hufeisen, Stefanie Nölle-Becker","doi":"10.24053/flul-2022-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/flul-2022-0018","url":null,"abstract":"Internationalisation is a key word for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Germany. It also encompasses mobility policies in order to increase the numbers of incoming international students from all over the world as well as the numbers of outgoing national students. For this reason, English as lingua franca/lingua academica is becoming the language of teaching and communication in German international university courses more and more. The authors argue that this attitude often labelled as English only neither mirrors nor exploits the vast multilingual repertoires of today’s societies in general and European HEIs in particular. Nevertheless, building truly inclusive (scientific) communities deeply committed to democratic and pluralistic principles allowing participation for all citoyennes and citoyens needs to encompass our multilingual and multicultural realities. Anchoring the concept of functional multilingualism in the institution’s internationalisation and languages strategies, the Technical University Darmstadt serves as an example of a German HEI following multilingual paths beyond German and English.","PeriodicalId":142968,"journal":{"name":"Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134391136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anna Katharina SCHNELL: Schreibprozesse und Schreibentwicklung in der Fremdsprache. Eine empirische Untersuchung zum L2-Schreiben von Französischstudierenden. Berlin [etc.]: Lang 2020, 460 Seiten [74,80 €]","authors":"Marlene Aufgebauer","doi":"10.24053/flul-2022-0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/flul-2022-0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142968,"journal":{"name":"Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122250265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giuseppe MANNO, Mirjam EGLI CUENAT, Christine LE PAPE RACINE, Christian BRÜHWILER (Hrsg.): Schulischer Mehrspracherwerb am Übergang zwischen Primarstufe und Sekundarstufe I. Münster: Waxmann 2020, 342 Seiten [39,90 €]","authors":"J. Mertens","doi":"10.24053/flul-2022-0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/flul-2022-0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142968,"journal":{"name":"Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116193494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mehrsprachige Forschung - Mehrsprachigkeit in der Forschung: theoretische und empirische Herausforderungen aus internationaler Perspektive","authors":"Dagmar Abendroth-Timmer, Britta Viehbrock","doi":"10.24053/flul-2022-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/flul-2022-0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142968,"journal":{"name":"Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115167085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Despite the vast body of research on plurilingualism which has emerged over the past years, it seems that few studies analyse the role of the plurilingual researchers when working in collaborative projects. The main purpose of this article, therefore, is to examine how research on plurilingualism is developed in a context where researchers from different language backgrounds work together in plurilingual collaborative research teams. Framed by the European project ENROPE, which enables networking structures for researchers in the field of language education and plurilingualism, the study was conducted during a plurilingual intensive study week in Barcelona (June-July 2021). The participants of the study are researchers, professors and PhD candidates from different European Universities developing research on plurilingualism. Relevant factors, such as the role of the English language and the role of languages other than English in plurilingual contexts, specific collaborative strategies and practices or the plurilingual identity are analysed. Initial results regarding the benefits and drawbacks of collaborating in plurilingual teams are discussed.
{"title":"Understanding the plurilingual research in context","authors":"David Soler Ortínez, Caterina Sugranyes Ernest","doi":"10.24053/flul-2022-0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/flul-2022-0019","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the vast body of research on plurilingualism which has emerged over the past years, it seems that few studies analyse the role of the plurilingual researchers when working in collaborative projects. The main purpose of this article, therefore, is to examine how research on plurilingualism is developed in a context where researchers from different language backgrounds work together in plurilingual collaborative research teams. Framed by the European project ENROPE, which enables networking structures for researchers in the field of language education and plurilingualism, the study was conducted during a plurilingual intensive study week in Barcelona (June-July 2021). The participants of the study are researchers, professors and PhD candidates from different European Universities developing research on plurilingualism. Relevant factors, such as the role of the English language and the role of languages other than English in plurilingual contexts, specific collaborative strategies and practices or the plurilingual identity are analysed. Initial results regarding the benefits and drawbacks of collaborating in plurilingual teams are discussed.","PeriodicalId":142968,"journal":{"name":"Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132439904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elisabeth LEHRNER-TE LINDERT: Fremdsprachliches Lesen mit literarischen Texten: Zur Entwicklung von Leseverstehen und literarischer Kompetenz im DaF-Unterricht der niederländischen Sekundarstufe I. Berlin: Erich Schmidt 2020, 342 Seiten [79,95 €]","authors":"Carola Surkamp","doi":"10.24053/flul-2022-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/flul-2022-0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142968,"journal":{"name":"Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126782537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}