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Direct linkWelikala, Thushari – London Review of Education, 2008
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 knowledge. The main argument is that language provides a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Role, English, Foreign Countries
