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Symposium on Language Issues in EMI Universities across Asia

The Hall of Mirrors Re-visited: Monash University as a Site of

Dynamic Language and Cultural Contact

Rosemary ClerehanMonash University

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Issues at Monash

• 1st student intake, 1961 • Highly diverse student – and staff – population• The monolingual meet the multicultural• “Local” and “international”• Staff responses• Student and staff support• Policy development, eg Internationalisation of

the curriculum• The “at-risk” student

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Berwick Campus

Berwick Campus

Caulfield Campus

Clayton Campus

Malaysia Campus

Parkville Campus

South Africa Campus

Gippsland Campus

Peninsula Campus

Prato London

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Monash off-shore campuses

CAMPUS Ac Staff

Total Staff

Stud’ts

Programs

Malaysia

(est. 1998)

112 251 2,450 5 u/g, 3 p/g

South Africa

(est. 2001)

57 166 524 4 u/g

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Monash 2005 Student Profile (n=52,400) Students born overseas: 25,479 (48.6%)

n = % of total

% LOTE at home

% on/off shore

Aust. citizens /residents

36,972 70.6% 24.3% n/a

International students

15,428 29.4% 90.5% 61.3% on-shore

37.7% off-shore

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Monash International and Domestic Students – time series

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

International

10,849 12,370 13,827 15,032 15,428

Domestic 34,805 35,876 35,894 36,894 36,972

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Monash 2005 Student Profile by Campus

Campus Total number

% Domestic

% Domestic speaking LOTE

at home

% Internat’l

% Internat’l speaking LOTE at

home

Berwick 1,948 76.4% 26.3% 23.6% 91.7%

Caulfield 12,861 64.5% 32.2% 35.5% 93.4%

Clayton 23,499 80.0% 24.3% 20.0% 89.0%

Gippsland 6,952 68.9% 10.0% 31.1% 89.9%

Parkville 1,239 83.2% 54.1% 16.8% 94.2%

Peninsula 2,927 87.6% 12.8% 12.4% 80.7%

Malaysia 2,450 0% 0% 100% 93.4%

Sth Africa 524 0% 0% 100% 72.9%

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Student and staff profiles

55,000 Students: Countries – 185 Languages – 134

~7,000 Staff: ?

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MSA Academic Staff – primary language

Language BusEc Arts InfoTech Acad Devel

English 10 6 7 7

Afrikaans 6 4 3 5

African Lang

1 5 1 4

French 1

Czech 1

Hindi 1

Japan 1

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Understandings of ELF

• ELF1 – some of the participants NNS• ELF2 – all participants NNS and do not

share same L1• ELF3 – all participants NNS and share

same L1• ELF 4 – a new code for interaction

among NNSsFrom Elder, Davies & Hamp-Lyons, 2006

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Patterns of ELF at Monash Campuses

ELF ELFIn class Out of class

Berwick ELF1 ELF1-4 Caulfield ELF1 ELF1-4 Clayton ELF1 ELF1-4 Gippsland ELF1 ELF1-4 Parkville ELF1 ELF1-4 Peninsula ELF1 ELF1-4 Malaysia ELF1-4 ELF1-4 Sth Africa ELF1-4 ELF1-3 Overseas centres and off-shore

programs: ELF 1-4

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Desirable directions

• More profound ecological understanding of the dimensions of the teaching-learning context

• Research-led IoC development within faculties

• Valuing of the learner and of multilingualism

• Greater on/off-shore interchange/exchange