The phrase "a multilingualism" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to refer to the concept of multiple languages being spoken or used, but it should be used as "multilingualism" without the article "a."
Example: "Multilingualism is becoming increasingly important in our globalized world."
Alternatives: "the ability to speak multiple languages" or "the phenomenon of multilingualism."
If "United in diversity" is to be more than a slogan, multilingualism must be more than a hazy goal.
Posing a question in one language and listening to the response in another is quite ordinary in Ukraine, where a casual multilingualism is the norm.
This in itself would be an ideological perspective on English, one that creates various difficulties for people in Britain for whom it is not a self-evident, neutral, purely practical tool, but for whom it is an ingredient of complex multilingualism, an ingredient they struggle with.
But as to the question of English as a threat to multilingualism, in a recent article with the title of Teaching English as an International Language: A multilingual perspective, I argued that globalisation of English does not necessarily pose a threat to bi/multilingualism, but in fact can increase the pluricentricity of the language.
Some behavioural evidence suggests a benefit of multilingualism in learning novel non-native words using a paired-associate task4, rote or keyword method5, as well as by pairing non-native words with their native translations and repeating them aloud6,7.
Another challenge for the future relates to multilingualism; taggers, parsers and lexicons for additional languages, apart from English, could be added into the system and provide a service discovery framework for a multilingual setting.
He initiated a Centre for Multilingualism in Education, which brought together academics, students, community organisations and policymakers in national conferences and seminars.
The Brussels beltway joke is that the British commissioner should be put in charge of multilingualism – a job created in 2007 for Romania when it joined the EU halfway through the European commission.
As a language learner, you'll not only become a more conscious thinker and listener who can communicate clearly and think creatively, but you'll also gain the most significant benefit of multilingualism: a broader, more global perspective.
With a strong emphasis on multilingualism based in an awareness of the politics of language in the Americas, our faculty members are in conversation with the hispanophone, anglophone, lusophone, and francophone cultures of the region, and also reach out to indigenous universities and cultural producers now claiming their rightful place in the "Latin American" context.
This points to an unsettling conclusion for advocates of multilingualism: in a union of many languages, increasingly there is but one language.
