Englishisation And Multilingual Dynamics In Higher Education

This book is Volume 1 of The Linguistic Landscape of Higher Education Internationalisation, a project examining the role of English as a Language of Globalisation and Internationalisation (ELGI), a term first introduced in this work, to describe the use of English as a key driver of internationalisation in higher education. The volume focuses on contexts in Kachru’s outer and expanding circles, particularly in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where English is neither a heritage nor an official language.

Adopting a critical perspective, the contributors explore how ELGI reshapes identities, local languages, and cultures, alongside institutional practices of Englishisation in HE. Attention is given to multilingualism, language hegemony, resistance to Englishisation, and stakeholder voices at the grassroots level. The volume also foregrounds language policy, ethical considerations, and the impact of digitalisation, including online education and linguistic landscapes.

This book will be a valuable resource for practitioners in international education, language policy, applied linguistics, and higher education studies.

Tamilla Mammadova is Associate Professor and the Coordinator of the Academic Writing & Information Literacy Program at ADA University in Azerbaijan. She earned her PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Dr. Mammadova has authored academic books and scholarly articles, serving as an editor for various journals and edited volumes.

Samantha Curle is a Reader in Education at the University of Bath, UK, and Director of MRes programs in the HSS Faculty and Institutional Academic Lead for the SWDTP. Her research focuses on EMI and academic achievement in multilingual higher education. She is globally funded and ranked the world’s top EMI scholar by SciVal.

Dogan Yuksel is a Professor of TEFL at Kocaeli University, Türkiye, and a Research Fellow and Project Manager on the UKRI-funded ELEMENTAL project at The Open University, UK. Areas of interest include Classroom Discourse and EMI published in Applied Linguistics, Higher Education, Linguistics and Education, Applied Linguistics Review, System, and other journals. 

Todd J. Allen is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Foreign Language Studies at Kansai University, Japan. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Queensland, Australia. His work examines Japanese hospitality sociopragmatics, academic writing, and intercultural education which appear in East Asian Pragmatics, Japanese Studies, RELC and other journals.