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Plurilingualism in the Middle Eastern Context: A Higher Education Guide

Plurilingualism in the Middle Eastern Context: A Higher Education Guide

Al Saghbini, Hisham

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Series: Linguistics Systems in Higher Education, Book 4

General Education

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ISBN13: 9798192110676
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Higher education across the Arab world sits at the intersection of several powerful, often competing linguistic forces: a living diglossia between Modern Standard Arabic and regional dialects; the rapid expansion of English-medium instruction across the Gulf; the enduring presence of French in the Levant and Maghreb; and, across Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine, mass displacement that has placed refugee and host-community students side by side in the same lecture halls. This book argues that the plurilingual model - developed originally within Council of Europe language policy - offers Arab higher education institutions a more accurate and more productive framework for this complexity than either strict English- or Arabic-medium monolingualism, but only if the model is adapted rather than imported wholesale.

Grounded in the sociolinguistics of Arabic diglossia (Ferguson, 1959; Ibrahim, 1983), the empirical literature on English-medium instruction in the Gulf (Belhiah & Elhami, 2015; Findlow, 2006; Carroll, Al Kahwaji, & Litz, 2017), and the broader Council of Europe plurilingual tradition, this book offers higher education practitioners across the region - programme leaders, academic developers, language centre staff, and subject lecturers - a practical model for curriculum design, assessment, staff development, and institutional policy suited specifically to Arab higher education contexts, from Gulf branch campuses to Levantine universities absorbing displaced student populations.

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