33.2217, Diss: Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics: Özge Özoğul: '' Foreign Academic Researchers in the Basque Country with a Focus on Multilingualism: Language and Intercultural Competences, Beliefs, and Practices''

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Subject: 33.2217, Diss: Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics: Özge Özoğul: '' Foreign Academic Researchers in the Basque Country with a Focus on Multilingualism: Language and Intercultural Competences, Beliefs, and Practices''

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Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 23:56:55
From: Özge Özoğul [ozge.ozogul at gmail.com]
Subject: Foreign Academic Researchers in the Basque Country with a Focus on Multilingualism: Language and Intercultural Competences, Beliefs, and Practices

 
Institution: Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) 
Program: Education: School, Language and Society 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2021 

Author: Özge Özoğul

Dissertation Title: Foreign Academic Researchers in the Basque Country with a
Focus on Multilingualism: Language and Intercultural
Competences, Beliefs, and Practices 

Dissertation URL:  https://addi.ehu.es/handle/10810/51116

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Jasone Cenoz
Durk Gorter

Dissertation Abstract:

This thesis focuses on the multilingualism of foreign academic researchers in
academic workplaces and in the wider Basque society. Academic workplaces are
by default international and multilingual, and languages and cultures brought
to the Basque Country by foreign researchers add further to the richness of
this bilingual region. Although English is used as lingua franca in academia,
other languages are used by academics depending on who they interact with, the
context, and the activities.

The cultural and linguistic diversity in academic workplaces mirrors diversity
in increasingly multilingual and multicultural societies. The aim is to
investigate foreign researchers’ languages, and how foreign researchers, use
their languages, how mobility, language learning and intercultural encounters
shape their intercultural competences, their opinions about languages, and to
learn about their cultural experiences in the Basque Country. In order to
study a group of foreign researchers as multilinguals, the ‘Focus on
Multilingualism’ approach developed by Cenoz and Gorter (2011, 2017) has been
adapted as the principal framework.

The data for this thesis were collected through an online questionnaire and
semi- structured interviews. The questionnaire concerned language competence,
language use, language attitudes about multilingualism as well as questions
regarding different cultures. The interviews were carried out to gain in-depth
knowledge about language use practices and language and cultural experiences
in the wider social context.

The thesis demonstrates the relationships between multilingualism and
intercultural competence. The profile of the foreign researchers shows that
they are all thoroughly multilingual speakers, who also are highly
intercultural competent, who in general have positive attitudes towards
various languages. In the academic work place, English dominates, but there is
some space for other languages as well. The situation in private life is more
diverse and different languages are used, although English often has a
presence. These foreign researchers use their whole multilingual repertoire
and apply flexible language practices. The relationships these researchers
maintain with the local work context of the Basque Country can be
characterised as in general positive, although they also are confronted with
some challenges related to their adaptation and integration in society.




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