Disempowering and dislocating: how learners from diverse cultures read the role of the English language in UK higher education

This paper explores how the English language privileges and empowers certain epistemologies and ontologies in international higher education in the UK. The author discusses how the English language is used to construct assumptions and practices to legitimise particular ways of constructing knowledg...

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Main Author: Thushari Welikala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UCL Press 2008-06-01
Series:London Review of Education
Online Access:https://uclpress.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.1080/14748460802185169