{"id":279,"date":"2026-02-25T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/?p=279"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:16:30","slug":"february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/2026\/02\/25\/february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hel\u00e9na Stakounis (Education Specialist) on language matters and the student experience at the internationalised university<\/strong><\/p>\n

On 25 February 2026, CULCOM hosted a talk by\u00a0Hel\u00e9na Stakounis, Education Specialist and Founder of Language Caf\u00e9<\/a><\/em>. The talk explored the experiences of home and international students at an internationalised university. International students and home students are typically classed as two distinct groups with different sets of needs. However, Hel\u00e9na\u2019s yearlong ethnographic study at a UK university revealed that regardless of background or culture, international and home students face similar challenges and have more in common than that which we make think divides them. In her talk, Hel\u00e9na discussed what the data revealed particularly in terms of the language challenges all students faced in both the social and academic contexts of the internationalised university. She proposed a framework called the \u2018language promise\u2019 to respond to the \u2018language problem\u2019 for a more linguistically just and inclusive student experience where language matters and intercultural communication strategies are given the importance that is required.<\/p>\n

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Hel\u00e9na\u00a0<\/a>is a teacher, manager, and assessment specialist with extensive experience in the private and Higher Education sector. She is the Founder and Owner of\u00a0Language Caf\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a school which brings together people across cultures and countries to learn language and become part of a shared community. <\/em>\u200bHer book Language Matters at the Internationalised University: From Practice to Policy<\/a> was recently published by Routledge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hel\u00e9na Stakounis (Education Specialist) on language matters and the student experience at the internationalised university On 25 February 2026, CULCOM hosted a talk by\u00a0Hel\u00e9na Stakounis, Education Specialist and Founder of Language Caf\u00e9. The talk explored the experiences of home and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1699,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}