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Multilingual, multimodal insights into the online learning experience: getting in the zone

Willans, Fiona and Prasad, Rajendra (2025) Multilingual, multimodal insights into the online learning experience: getting in the zone. In: Researching Multilingually: Conceptual and Methodological Failures, Struggles, and Successes. Multilingual Matters, Bristol. ISBN 9781788925709

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Abstract

In this chapter, we discuss language choices made in a study conducted at The University of the South Pacific, a regional institution located across twelve highly multilingual countries, at which English is the lingua franca and principal medium of instruction. English is also typically left unquestioned as the norm for research and scholarship by staff and students, particularly in studies about our own students’ learning experiences within our institution. We discuss strategies that we used to incorporate our participants’ perspectives about one of our own courses, setting out to use English as little as possible, wanting both to hear from participants in their dominant languages and to challenge the assumption that English is the default language of research.

Item Type: Book Chapter
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
Divisions: School of Pacific Arts, Communication and Education (SPACE)
Depositing User: Fiona Willans
Date Deposited: 26 Jan 2025 23:27
Last Modified: 26 Jan 2025 23:27
URI: https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/14641

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