English-Medium Instruction in European Higher Education

by Slobodanka Dimova (Editor), Anna Kristina Hultgren (Editor), Christian Jensen (Editor)

Overview

This volume provides a focused account of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in European higher education, considering issues of ideologies, policies, and practices. This is an essential book for academics, students, policy makers, and educators directly or indirectly implicated in the internationalization of European higher education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614517252
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	06/26/2015
Series:	Language and Social Life [LSL] , #4
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Slobodanka Dimova and Christian Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Anna Kristina Hultgren, The Open University, UK.

Table of Contents

Series preface vii

Introduction: English-medium instruction in European higher education: From the north to the south Anna Kristina Hultgren Christian Jensen Slobodanka Dimova 1

I Opportunity or Threat

1 English as threat or opportunity in European higher education Robert Phillipson 19

2 Introducing EMI at a Croatian university: Can we bridge the gap between global emerging trends and local challenges? Branka Drljca Margic Irena Vodopija-Krstanovic 43

3 Internationatisation and the EMI controversy in Italian higher education Virginia Pulcini Sandra Campagna 65

4 Internationalization and English-medium instruction in German higher education Katherine Gürtler Elke Kronewald 89

5 Multilingual language policy: Is it becoming a misnomer at university level? David Lasagabaster 115

II Before, During, and After EMI

6 English in a new linguistic context: Implications for higher education Hafdís Ingvasdóttir Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir 137

7 From stimulated recall to disciplinary literacy: Summarizing ten years of research into teaching and learning in English John Airey 157

8 English-medium higher education: A case study in a Turkish university context Erkan Arkin Necdet Osam 177

9 "You try with a little humor and you just get on with it": Danish lecturers' reflections on English-medium instruction Joyce Kling 201

10 From tool to target language: Arguing the need to enhance language learning in English-medium instruction courses and programs Glenn Ole Hellekjær Anne-lnger Hellekjær 223

III Policy and Ideology

11 Language policy in Estonian Higher Education: Internationalisation and the tension over English Josep Soler-Carbonell 247

12 English in Italian universities: The language policy of PoliMi from theory to practice Francesca Santulli 269

13 "I know that the natives must suffer every now and then": Native/non-native indexing language ideologies in Finnish higher education Laura McCambridge Taina Saarinen 291

4 English-medium instruction in European higher education: Review and future research Slobodanka Dimova Anna Kristina Hullgren Christian Jensen 317

Index 325

Editorial Reviews

"This volume provides a focused account of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in European higher education, considering issues of ideologies, policies, and practices. This is an essential book for academics, students, policy makers, and educators directly or indirectly implicated in the internationalization of European higher education."
In: Europe Now (June 2019), https://www.europenowjournal.org/2019/06/10/june-2019/

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