Developing and Evaluating Quality Bilingual Practices in Higher Education

Rubio-alcala, Fernan

ISBN 10: 1788923693 / ISBN 13: 9781788923699

Published by Multilingual Matters, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Developing and Evaluating Quality Bilingual Practices in Higher Education
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788923693
• ISBN 13: 9781788923699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book provides an overview and evaluation of the quality of bilingual education found in internationalised higher education institutions. Its authors focus on the multifaceted roles that language(s) play in these growing multilingual spaces and analyse and identify the many factors that account for quality multilingual degree programmes. The chapters cover themes such as language policy, quality assurance tools and indicators of quality and the authors approach issues of quality from very different and complementary perspectives, adopting for example, temporal, evaluative and developmental positioning, and taking micro, meso and macro level perspectives, while still keeping sight of the local realities, practices and possibilities. The contributions are written by authors working in Brazil, Finland, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK and have implications for researchers, education coordinators, practitioners and other stakeholders who are looking to design, launch and evaluate new programmes in any higher education context worldwide.

About the Authors

Fernando D. Rubio Alcalá is Head of Language Policy at the University of Huelva, Spain. His main research field is foreign language acquisition, with a particular focus on multilingualism in tertiary education and the influence of affective factors in foreign language teaching and learning.

Do Coyle is Professor of Languages Education and Classroom Pedagogy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research focuses on bilingual education and pedagogies specifically content and language integrated learning (CLIL). Her seminal Cambridge University Press (CUP) book titled CLIL (Coyle, Hood & Marsh, 2010) led to recent CUP publications – Beyond CLIL (Coyle & Meyer, 2021) and A Deeper Learning Companion for CLIL (Coyle, Meyer & Straschen-Dielmann, 2023). As a founder member of the Graz Group, she promotes pluriliteracies teacher education and prioritises how classrooms, pedagogic shifts, disciplinary literacies, and shared learning spaces impact on equality, diversity, and inclusion for those who matter most – teachers and learners.