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SUMMARY:Multilingual practices and attitudes among university students in 
 Europe and the US: implications for the teaching of languages - Professor 
 Anne Pauwels\, School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS)\, University of 
 London
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DTEND:20180129T183000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:The focus of this talk is on the intersection between multilin
 gualism\, language learning and higher education. The constantly increasin
 g voluntary and forced mobility of people resulting from the forces of glo
 balisation and political instabilities in various regions are having a dra
 matic impact on the linguistic make up of many nation-states\, especially 
 in Europe. New forms of linguistic diversity and multilingualism are emerg
 ing. To date the impact of the linguistic aspects of globalization have no
 t yet been explored on how they affect university students. As universitie
 s play a key role in the preparation of the next generation of global citi
 zens\, it is important to gauge students’ linguistic profiles and practi
 ces\, their attitudes to multilingualism as well as their language learnin
 g motivations and needs. \n\nIn this paper I will present a project that f
 ocuses on these issues in relation to language learning students in nine c
 ountries and will also outline some of the possible consequences of these 
 development for the teaching and learning of  (foreign) languages in unive
 rsities.\n\n*Anne Pauwels* is currently Professor of Sociolinguistics at S
 OAS\, University of London. She received her degree in Germanic Philology 
 from the University of Antwerp (Belgium)\, and her MA and PhD (Linguistics
 ) from Monash University\, Australia. Her research focuses on language and
  communication in social context with specific attention to multilingualis
 m\, language maintenance and shift in migration settings\, minority langua
 ges\, language policy in relation to heritage languages\, (foreign) langua
 ge learning in university settings\, and the relationship between language
 \, gender\, ethnicity and culture. She has written extensively on these su
 bjects including papers in internationally refereed journals and several b
 ooks\, e.g. _Immigrant dialects and language maintenance in Australia_ (19
 86)\, _Raising children bilingually_ (1993)\, _Women changing language_ (1
 998)\, _Boys and foreign language learning_ (2005) and  _Language maintena
 nce and shift_ (2016)\nHer current research grants focus on multilingual p
 ractices of young people around the world (OWRI-AHRC) and on language issu
 es in European refugee camps (ANR\, France).\n
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