高等教育国际化进程中的马来西亚语言教育政策研究

Language Educati onal Policy in the Process of Internationalization of Malaysian Higher Education

马来西亚高等教育的国际化取得了可喜的成绩,其发展进程可分为初始期(双联课程的开发)、发展期(双联课程的发展和外国分校的建立)和繁荣期(公、私立院校的共同发展以及地区国际教育中心的打造)三个阶段。每个阶段都有其教育国际化的特点以及与之相伴的语言教育政策,研究发现,高等教育国际化与语言教育政策密切相关。马来西亚利用自身的语言环境特点制定了多元化的语言教育政策:利用英语教学媒介语来推动本国高等教育的国际化,利用马来语等教学媒介语及语言课程来保持本国高等教育中多语言制多文化的特点。马来西亚的有关实践为中国高等教育国际化的发展提供了语言教育政策方面的启示。

Malaysia has achieved remarkable success in its internationalization of higher education(HE),whose evolution undergoes three stages:the initial stage(emergence of twin programs),the developmentalstage(promotion of twin programs and establishment of foreign campuses)and the prosperous stage(development of both public and private HE,and construction of an regional international HE hub).This papersummarizes the features of the internationalization and its corresponding language educational policies at eachof the stages.Considering its multilingual repertoire,Malaysia has made its own language educational policiesin the process of internationalization of HE:English as a medium of instruction is used to promote the internalization of HE.Malay and other languages as media of instruction and as language courses are used to maintain its lingual and cultural diversity in its internationalization of HE.The intermnationalization of Malyasia HEhas three implications for China's language educational policy in the internationalization of HE.