A further purpose of the paper is to identify episodes in British data which may differ from those in other cultural contexts where other lecturing practices prevail, and thus to inform the design of study skills and staff development programmes for multilingual, multicultural, international university environments.
Ben Pimlott, warden of Goldsmiths College, London University, says Hobsbawm - multilingual and steeped in the culture and history of central Europe - "thinks on a grand scale".
This paper examines the multilingual landscape of California and emphasizes the potential of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) in a university curriculum as a way of promoting students' language awareness and cultural literacy.
The study took place at a large, West-coast, public university in the U.S. Findings are based on a larger research project involving eight multilingual student participants in their final year as undergraduate students.
We document the writing development of the Argument genre among two multilingual novice writers of academic English after they participated in a literacy intervention in a university-level history class at an English-medium university in the Middle East.
The bespectacled, multilingual Mr. Dias proceeded to give me a wonderful tour-for-one, recounting the history of the university and peppering me with questions to keep me on my toes.
I spent many hours in the university library in Luxembourg working on this, speaking to teachers, professors, and students who lived through a multilingual education system.
My university friends were equally positive but I also sensed a certain apprehension about spending a year abroad in a multilingual region.
Iriye and May, along with like-minded scholars at other major research universities (such as John Lewis Gaddis and Paul Kennedy at Yale), trained a generation of American international historians to use multiarchival, multilingual sources and reach beyond formal state-to-state relations into such realms as culture, immigration and business.
Apparently she is multilingual.
