Portraits of Graduates in Becoming Multilingual and Multicultural Citizens in the Context of Internationalization

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the portraits graduates who have learned English as a foreign language on one hand, while maintaining Indonesian and local languages other. This study draws poststructuralist notions identity learning uses portraiture lens emphasising contexts voice. data from semi-structured interviews focus group five key participants relating their contextual backgrounds efforts be bilinguals. Learning an additional requires systemic multifaceted overarching approaches over relatively long periods time rather than single strategy within short period. These contributed them beome multilingual multicultural individuals. Empirical evidence shows that situational factors such exposure motivation play dominant roles assists learners bilingual biliterate link closely in terms quantity quality experiences target language. They are, nevertheless, valuable learners.