1st Edition
Plurilingual and Intercultural Pedagogy for All in Higher Education
1. Introducing student mobility in higher education 2. EMI Pedagogies in Higher Education 3. Tensions arising from English Medium Instruction 4. Valuing the linguistic diversity in higher education 5. Connections between language policy, internationalisation and interculturality 6. Plurilingual pedagogic approaches 7. Construction of a plurilingual disciplinary module 8. Conclusion: the value of a plurilingual approach
Biography
Deborah C. Darling is a senior lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. She is also an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Cornish Studies. Her research mainly centres around discourse analysis, interculturality, language ideologies and language use in institutional settings. Her work has appeared in The Routledge Handbook of Critical Interculturality in Communication and Education (2024) and The Concise Routledge Encyclopaedia of New Concepts for Interculturality (2025).
“A timely and transformative vision for higher education. In Plurilingual and Intercultural Pedagogy for All in Higher Education, Deborah C. Darling invites us to rethink the linguistic architecture of global academia. With clarity and conviction, she dismantles the myth that English-only instruction is the inevitable price of internationalisation. Instead, she offers a compelling blueprint for plurilingual pedagogy—an approach that enriches English Medium Instruction rather than replaces it, and that celebrates the linguistic and cultural diversity already present in our classrooms.”
Anna Kristina Hultgren, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Professor at The Open University, United Kingdom
