English: Key to International Studies and Barrier to Deepened Understanding? Cover Image

Angielski: Klucz do studiów międzynarodowych i bariera na drodze do pogłębionego zrozumienia
English: Key to International Studies and Barrier to Deepened Understanding?

Author(s): Wilfried Hartmann
Subject(s): Education, Foreign languages learning, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: academic mobility; aims of language teaching; Campus Europae; communication barriers; Englishes; exchange programs; language interference; lingua franca

Summary/Abstract: Following a discussion of the positive and negative aspects of the use of English in exchange programs, seven hypotheses on the use of the vernacular in academia are analyzed and conclusions drawn, leading to seeing English as one, but not as the only necessary key for international understanding in the academic world.

  • Issue Year: 3/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 199-214
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish