Developing and Evaluating Quality Bilingual Practices in Higher Education

This book approaches the complexities of HE language realities from a multitude of perspectives, providing both practical examples and theoretical background that will help HEIs tackle the issues they face. Insightful reading for anyone striving to deliver quality bi- and multilingual higher education and hoping to do it responsibly. * Esko Koponen, University of Helsinki, Finland *
What an important publication! It provides both theoretical frameworks and conceptual approaches for establishing and assessing quality in internationalisation. By also applying these in contexts and cases, authors challenge us to re-think our assumptions about languages, teaching, and learning in our internationalization endeavours as well as the range and character of our international programmes. My colleagues need to read this, but I will send it to the Dean of Education first! * Magnus Gustafsson, Department of Communication and Learning in Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden *
This volume deftly addresses a topic of great currency on the bilingual research agenda: how to enact quality assurance in higher education multilingual programmes. It does so by pooling the insights of well-recognized scholars and offering a multi-pronged approach to the topic: from policy to practice to professional development. A must-read tour de force for anyone interested in the set-up, development, or reinforcement of quality multilingual programmes in higher education institutions. * María Luisa Pérez Cañado, University of Jaén, Spain *

Rubio-Alcalá and Coyle’s newly published volume is an interesting and engaging read that provides first-hand examples of primarily European tertiary contexts and their success and struggles with the adoption of bilingual practices. As a whole, this well written collection of a foreword, introduction and nine unique chapters, works to fill the gap in scholarship relating to developing and evaluating quality multilingual practices at the post-secondary level.

-- Kevin S. Carroll, University of Puerto Rico * International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022 *

This book is a highly valuable and pertinent contribution to the field [...] It will surely become a yardstick for future research into bilingual education at tertiary level.

-- María del Mar Sánchez-Pérez, Universidad de Almería, Spain * RESLA 35:2 *