Learning and Teaching Multilingually in Higher Education

Critical and reflective discussion of the challenges and possibilities of increasingly multilingual higher education.
This book investigates the perceptions of universities toward the role and place of language in the complex process of internationalising academic knowledge and work and offers a unique focus on the lived experiences of both teachers and students in multilingual university contexts.
The authors explore how multilingual teachers and students navigate issues of identity, authenticity and belonging, centring their voices and underscoring the beliefs, struggles and innovations of students and educators navigating multilingual higher education environments.
The book bridges policy, teaching practice and student experience in higher education and is grounded in empirical, cross-national research, providing a comparative insight into how multilingualism is experienced and enacted across different higher education systems, making it both evidence-based and potentially globally relevant. It provides fresh insights into what it means to teach and learn across diverse linguistic landscapes and envisions a more inclusive, humanised and equitable approach to multilingual higher education.

About the author

Patchareerat Yanaprasart is Senior Lecturer at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses on intercultural and multilingual communication, particularly in professional, educational and expatriate contexts, and explores how language, culture and identity interact in multilingual workplaces and international mobility.
Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer is Full Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research focuses on visual methods, multilingual pedagogies and language teacher education. Her publications include Visualising Language Students and Teachers as Multilinguals (with Paula Kalaja, Multilingual Matters, 2025).

Product details

• Authors: Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Yanaprasart Patchareerat
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.07.2026
• EAN: 9781800412170
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-217-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Language teaching theory & methods, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Higher education, tertiary education, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher