What is it about?
A survey of students at the University of Strasbourg indicates that students in the humanities and social sciences are more plurilingual than those in sciences and technology and that the more plurilingual students are more mobile internationally. All students indicate a preference for directing their own language learning.
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Why is it important?
Although we tend to see students as mostly monolingual, with some of them being of foreign origine, this study indicates that most students can communicate in more than one and often up to 4 or more languages.
Perspectives
How can plurlingualism be capitalised upon in the university setting ? How can students language skills be valorised and how can teachers use plurilingual skills that exist to promote further language education ?
Dr Denyze Toffoli
Universite Toulouse III Paul Sabatier
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This page is a summary of: University students’ plurilingual profiles in a French frontier city: Similarities and differences between more and less plurilingual students, Language Learning in Higher Education, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/cercles-2015-0002.
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