At a time when multilingualism is spreading across university contexts all over the world, this article focuses on major repercussions that coexistence of different languages has Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP). After analysing interface between LSP and multilingualism, University Basque Country UPV/EHU put forward as very good case in point how multilingual universities are endeavouring ...

Webtran tools for authoring and translating domain specific texts can make the multilingual text production in a company more efficient and less expensive. The tools have been in production use since spring 2000 for checking and translating product article texts of a specific domain, namely an in-company language in sales catalogues of a mail-order company. Webtran tools have been developed by ...

This paper elaborates on a factor that plays a role in receptive multilingualism, namely the influence of a second language (L2). We investigated whether knowledge of German can help Dutch people to decode written Danish words when they do not know any Danish. We instructed 32 participants with Dutch as a native language (L1) and different levels of proficiency in German as an L2 to translate 4...

In this paper we present a strategy for implementing E-Learning at South East European University. The developed strategy takes into account the University’s mission in achieving a so-called borderless education within the regional Balkans context, but also in a wider European and global context. A number of issues related to such a specific context of the University, such as its multilingual a...

In the present paper, recordings of ‘Swedish on multilingual ground’ from three different cities in Sweden are compared and discussed.

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