In the new European higher education space, Universities in Europe are exhorted to
cultivate and develop multilingualism. The European Commission's 2004–2006 action plan
for promoting language learning and diversity speaks of the need to build an environment
which is favourable to languages. Yet reality indicates that it is English which reigns
supreme and has become the main foreign language used as means of instruction at
European universities. Internationalisation has played a key role in this process, becoming …