INCLU-LINGUAM

INCLU-LINGUAM: Language policies and inclusion in the internationalized university: Sociolinguistic and educational focus to promote equity, diversity and interculturality

The INCLU-LINGUAM project aims to bring the inclusion and equity dimensions to (1) the growing research on internationalization at universities, and (2) the design of higher education plurilingual language policies. It is a continuation and an extension of our previous Translinguam-Uni project, which investigated multilingual, multicultural university classrooms with full English-Medium Instruction (EMI) and students’ linguistic, attitudinal, and identitary development. This project will ensure to represent the plurality of university classrooms, paying attention to the curricular support and adaptations applied by the University with the aim of preventing situations of linguistic, interactional and, therefore, academic disadvantage at the internationalized university. INCLU-LINGUAM sets out to make research-based recommendations for higher education plurilingual language policies that explicitly consider inclusion, equity, diversity and interculturality. We will do so by investigating the nature and development of these students’ (1) plurilingual practices, and (2) attitudes towards languages and interculturality. We will then add an exploration of individual and contextual factors acting as drivers and deterrents for the plurilingualism and interculturality promoted by universities nowadays.

PID2022-141945NB-I00, supported by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and FEDER, EU.