Times of change in a Brazilian University: Insights from research into the language, literacy and digital practices of academics
Izabel Magalhães
Abstract:With the current policy of internationalization of federal universities in Brazil, with the design of an appraisal system, and with the rapid trend towards digitization, there have been far-reaching changes in the day-to-day organization of academic life and in the communicative practices of academics. Before the internationalization policy, the main language of research was Portuguese, but now there is a growing shift to English in some fields. This article focuses on the impact of these changes on the langua… Show more
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