Academic writing centres in multilingual settings: Intermediary agents of higher education language policy?

Academic writing centres in non-Anglophone countries navigate language policies that encourage the development of local languages and English within multilingual university settings. These entail diverging ideologies connect use to diversification standardisation aims. Although are stakeholders academic therefore participants policy process, their role agency this process has been neglected. The study explores how centre staff perceive work relation Data were collected via a nation-wide survey Sweden seven focus groups. results demonstrate claim as brokers. Institutional monolingualism assessment regimes value text product over learning provide limitations. reported practices illuminate special status Swedish for production, opportunities grassroots intermediaries between students, lecturers policies.