ABSTRACT
Higher education (HE) has been one of the main domains in which English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research has taken an interest. When approaching higher educational institutions (HEIs) from a language policy (LP) perspective, it soon becomes evident that, outside the Anglo-American sphere, there has been a clear move away from monolingualism to forms of multilingualism. The ensuing diversified language constellations have attracted concerted applied linguistic research interests and resulted in a wealth of LP descriptions and conceptual approaches. As captured in the models introduced and illustrated in selected LP scenarios in this chapter, there is a myriad of LPs with what seems to be one constant – the fact that English is the only language that has a role to play in practically all of them. In the 'inner-circle' universities it largely remains the only officially recognised language, while it is a central ingredient in the language mix at most other HEIs.
