The editors are all affiliated with Roskilde University, Denmark, as well as the international research centre, 'Cultural and Linguistic Practices in the International University'¿¿ (CALPIU). Bent Preisler is Professor of English Sociolinguistics, and founder and director of CALPIU. His main research includes works on the functions of English in an international context.

Ida Klitgård is Associate Professor in English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Her work includes stylistics and rhetoric, currently focusing on the concept of plagiarism in student written assignments.

Anne H. Fabricius is Associate Professor of English. Her main research area is sociophonetics, with wider interests in quantitative sociolinguistics, sociolinguistic methodology and the analysis of spoken language.

Introduction: Bent Preisler

Part I: English as a lingua franca for Higher Education teaching and learning

Chapter 1 John Airey: The Relationship between Teaching Language and Student Learning in Swedish University Physics

Chapter 2 Christian Jensen et al.: Students' and Teachers' Self-Assessment of English Language Proficiency in English-Medium Higher Education in Denmark - a Questionnaire Study

Part II: When the official lingua franca happens to be the first language of the majority: The case of the UK

Chapter 3 Peter Sercombe: Perceptions of Identity and Issues of Concern among International Students in the UK

Chapter 4 Catherine Montgomery: Developing Perceptions of Interculturality: a Troublesome Space?

Chapter 5 David Killick: Internationalising the University: Enabling Selves-in-the-World

Part III: The construction of international perspectives in 'international' student group work

Chapter 6 Dennis Day and Susanne Kjærbeck: The construction of international perspectives in 'international' student group work.

Chapter 7 Anne H. Fabricius: International Basic Studies in the Humanities: Internationalization and Localization in Four Dimensions

Part IV: Academic writing and literacy in a transnational perspective

Chapter 8 Carole Sedgwick: Crossing Borders: the Feasibility of Harmonising Academic Literacy Standards across Europe

Chapter 9 Ida Klitgård: Plagiarism in the International University: From Kidnapping and Theft to Translation and Hybridity Part V: East and West at the International University

Chapter 10 Hu Xiaoqiong and Chen Yuehong: International Students at China Three Gorges University: A Survey

Chapter 11 Juhyun Back: How far can face and hierarchy affect developing interaction between Korean university students and their supervisors in the UK?

Chapter 12 Roberval T. e Silva and Custódio C. Martins: Intercultural interaction: Teacher and Student Roles in the Classroom of Portuguese as a Foreign Language in Macau, China

This book views the international university as a microcosm of a world where internationalization does not equate with across-the-board use of English, but rather with the practice of linguistic and cultural diversity, even in the face of Anglophone dominance. The globalization-localization continuum manifests itself in every university trying to adopt internationalization strategies. The many cases of language and learning issues presented in this book, from universities representing different parts of the world, are all manifestations of a multidimensional space encompassing local vs. global, diversification vs. Anglicization. The internationalization of universities represents a new cultural and linguistic hybridity with the potential to develop new forms of identities unfettered by traditional 'us-and-them' binary thinking, and a new open-mindedness about the roles of self and others, resulting in new patterns of communicative (educational and social) practices.