Language and intercultural student interactions: Insights from a cosmopolitan agency perspective

Recent studies have identified ‘cosmopolitan agency’ as a hallmark of meaningful intercultural interactions between international and domestic students, which have been found difficult to achieve in many countries. However, with the continued expansion of internationalised programmes and courses offered in English in non-Anglophone countries, this agency may favour students with high English proficiency and disfavour those who prefer to use other, especially local, languages for intercultural interactions. 

Kazuhiro will provide insights into the role of language in students’ engagement in intercultural interactions in non-Anglophone countries by using an ecological and person-in-context conceptual framework of cosmopolitan agency. 

This event will be particularly useful for those interested in higher education research.

Related links

• Centre for Global Higher Education
• Department of Education, Practice and Society