Introduction: language management, ideologies and practices in scientific research

ABSTRACT

The several challenges posed to Higher Education Institutions by globalisation and internationalisation have been highlighting language issues within scientific research that are related to the naturalisation of English-only policies. Over the last years, this naturalisation has been questioned by some researchers in the area of social sciences, arts and humanities who have discussed the constraints of monolingualism versus the potential of multilingualism in knowledge production, dissemination and circulation. This special issue aims at contributing to a growing debate on language policy and planning within research, by addressing language management, ideologies and practices in diverse key dimensions of scientific research (knowledge construction and dissemination, research assessment, multilingual collaborative research and doctoral education), and bringing together contributors from diversified academic contexts (Brazil, France, Germany, Portugal and Switzerland).

KEYWORDS:

• Scientific research
• language management
• language ideologies
• language practices
• multilingualism

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes on contributors

Maria Helena Araújo e Sá is a Professor at the Department of Education and Psychology (University of Aveiro, Portugal), where she supervises master, doctoral and post-doctoral students in the area of Language and Language and Teacher Education. She is the Coordinator of the Research Centre Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF) and the Director of the Doctoral Programme in Education. Her main research domains are intercomprehension, plurilingual and intercultural communication and teacher education.

Susana Pinto is a Researcher at the Research Centre Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF) of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She has a PhD in Didactics and Teacher Education, a Master’s in Language Didactics and a degree in Teaching Portuguese and English. She is the Coordinator of the Open Laboratory for Foreign Language Learning (LALE). Her main research interests are language policies for education and research in higher education, plurilingual and intercultural competences, and supervision across cultures in doctoral programmes.

Notes

1 http://www.dylan-project.org/Dylan_en/home/home.php

2 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/28388/reporting

3 https://www.mime-project.org/

4 https://www.helsinki-initiative.org/

5 http://www.sagw.ch/fr/sagw/veranstaltungen/sagw-agenda-2009/ht-09.html

6 http://e-ipol.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ALFAL-2017-Convocatoria-Proyecto-8-PL-en-AL-1.pdf

7 http://www.celelc.org/Events/CEL_ELC-Forum-2018.html

Additional information

Funding

This work is financially supported the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. under the project UIDB/00194/2020 and in the scope of the framework contract foreseen in the numbers 4, 5 and 6 of the article 23, of the Decree-Law 57/2016, of August 29, changed by Law 57/2017, of July 19.