Publications

Publication details [#56410]

Saarinen, Taina. 2012. Internationalization of Finnish higher education — is language an issue? International Journal of the Sociology of Language 216 : 157–173.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

globalization | language policy | language use | multilingualism | university

Language as a subject

English | Finnish | Swedish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study explores the higher education language situation of Finland, a small country with a marginal Finnish majority language, an official Finnish-Swedish bilingual status, and the highest number of English-taught programs in higher education.