How Is AI Affecting Open Research?
Learn about the advances, risks and challenges that are shaping open research practices, including artificial intelligence, from two experts based in Europe.
In a globalized world, and with the increased internationalization of higher education, multilingualism can be a key strength for universities. The ability to communicate in more than one language has cognitive and learning benefits, and it boosts communication skills, employability, cultural awareness and an open mindset.
So, how can universities, which usually host speakers of scores of languages on their campuses, capitalize on this skill set?
In this episode, we talk to Anwei Feng, a professor of language education whose research and extensive publications focus on bilingualism and trilingualism with a particular interest in Chinese minority languages. He is chair professor of multilingual education in the School of Education and English in the Institution of Asia and Pacific Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Feng, who speaks Mandarin, English and several Chinese dialects, has worked at universities in China, Qatar, Hong Kong, Singapore and the U.K., where he did his Ph.D. He is founder and vice president of the Chinese Society of Multilingualism and Multilingual Education and co-editor, with Bob Adamson, Zhen Li and Christine Lee, of Nurturing Glocal Talents: The Role of China’s Transnational Higher Education (Routledge), which will be published later this year.
For more advice and insight to support student success in the multilingual classroom, head to our latest spotlight guide.
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