Reading to write an MA thesis in languages and literatures: Are we educating multilinguals with a monolingual bias?
(2021) 7th Young Linguists’ Meeting — Location: Poznań (online) (23.April.2021)
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- If multilingualism has long been seen as the co-existence of several monolingualisms, recent studies have highlighted the importance of different models, such as multicompetence (Cummins, 2012) or the plea for a translingual agenda (Seloni, 2014). However, in academic writing, monolingualism seems to be the norm as authors, who often write in English, tend to mainly read and cite works published in English, even in the field of multilingualism (Horner et al., 2011). For scholars, this could in part be attributed to a citation advantage when references are in English (Gong et al., 2019), but students should ideally be free from these bibliometric pressures. The present paper reports the results of an exploratory study on the role of pluriliteracy in students’ research process for the writing of their MA thesis.
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Buntinx, N. (2021). Reading to write an MA thesis in languages and literatures: Are we educating multilinguals with a monolingual bias? 7th Young Linguists’ Meeting, Poznań (online). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/118713