Order and Crash: Multilingual Ecology and Language Planning in Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education Institutions

As preconditions and consequences of the globalization of higher education, multilingualism has reconfigured language ecology, language policy and planning, and multilingual management in the contemporary world. However, studies of multilingualism focusing on real-language scenarios in Sino-foreign...

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Published inEducation sciences Vol. 13; no. 9; p. 921
Main Author Hu, Wenting
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2023
Subjects
Attitudes
Case studies
Competition
Cooperative education
Cooperative learning
Ecolinguistics
Ecology
Education policy
Globalization
Higher education
language management
Language planning
Language policy
Linguistics
Literature reviews
multilingual ecology
Multilingualism
Origin of language
Pedagogy
Research Methodology
Sino-foreign cooperative education institutions
Sociolinguistics
Sociology
Transnationalism
China
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Summary:As preconditions and consequences of the globalization of higher education, multilingualism has reconfigured language ecology, language policy and planning, and multilingual management in the contemporary world. However, studies of multilingualism focusing on real-language scenarios in Sino-foreign cooperative education institutions (SCEIs) are rare. This study explores the multilingual ecology, language policy and planning, and language management of three leading SCEIs in China. It also investigates the attitudes of SCEIs’ stakeholders toward language use and language policy in multilingual contexts. A case study was conducted by analyzing a significant number of language policy documents, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, and partial participant observations. The research results reveal the main features of multilingual coexistence and intense competition in the three leading SCEIs by identifying the micro, meso, and macro issues of language management. The effects of language policy and planning mechanisms are also identified in SCEIs of higher education. Potential conflicts in multilingual environments are interpreted from the perspective of global cooperation. Last, recommendations are offered for the advancement of the language evolution of SCEIs in China.
ISSN:2227-7102
2227-7102
DOI:10.3390/educsci13090921