The Routledge Handbook of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9780367445492 / Twarda / 2024 / 656 str.

Opis

This handbook discusses the theoretical and disciplinary background to the study of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education worldwide. It highlights issues relating to EMI pedagogy, varying motivations for EMI education, and the delivery of EMI in diverse contexts across the world.

Recenzje

This extensive volume on English-medium instruction in higher education (EMI) offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of a multi-layered world Englishes perspective on EMI, highlighting the importance of sociolinguistic context in the planning and implementation of EMI policies across diverse regions. This Handbook will be of immense value for researchers and scholars in the field.

Professor Vijay K. Bhatia,

Chinese University of Hong Kong

This volume offers a comprehensive synthesis of EMI research and practice across the world. It is impressive in its geographical breadth, its theoretical depth, and its empirical rigour. It will no doubt become a foundational work in the field and help to set the agenda for future work in this area.

Professor Rodney Jones,

University of Reading

English-medium instruction (EMI) has been the most impactful and still expanding language education phenomenon in the last twenty years. This Handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of EMI across the globe. It will undoubtedly become an essential reference for researchers and practitioners worldwide.

Professor Li Wei, Director and Dean,

Institute of Education, University College London

English-medium instruction in higher education (EMI) is of key concern to academics and educationalists, as well as to decision makers and politicians. This timely Handbook explores these interests through a coherent and concrete set of empirical findings. It is an essential read in understanding how the English language currently shapes the many ways in which learning and teaching are managed in higher education.

Professor Christopher J. Jenks,

Intercultural Communication, Utrecht University

This timely and important Handbook provides a theoretical and empirical overview of the exponential development of EMI worldwide. Its focus on the importance/significance of examining these developments critically, conceptually, and contextually is what makes it an absolute must read.

Professor Stephen May,

University of Auckland, New Zealand

This volume is a tour de force--an essential resource for anyone working in the field of EMI. It traces the complex and pluricentric intellectual history of this rapidly maturing field and charts a course for its continued theoretical and methodological development.

Professor Francis M. Hult,

University of Maryland, USA

This Handbook offers a comprehensive look at what happens around the world when English is used as a teaching medium in higher education. The editors are to be congratulated for bringing together an impressive list of scholars-contributors, whose expertise covers an astounding geography in this important field of scholarship.

Professor Patricia Friedrich,

Arizona State University, USA

Spis treści

1. English-medium instruction in higher education worldwide Part I: An overview of English-medium instruction in higher education  2. English-medium instruction: Theoretical and applied perspectives  3. Language policies and English-medium higher education worldwide  4. Lecturers' professional development for English-medium instruction in higher education  5. Linguistic imperialism in English-medium higher education Part II: English-medium instruction in higher education in Europe  6. English-medium instruction in higher education throughout Europe  7. English-medium instruction in higher education in Austria  8. English-medium instruction in higher education in the Basque Country  9. English-medium instruction in higher education in France  10. English-medium instruction in higher education in Germany  11. English-medium instruction in higher education in Italy  12. English-medium instruction in higher education in the Netherlands  13. English-medium instruction in higher education in Poland  14. English-medium instruction in higher education in Scandinavia  15. English-medium instruction in higher education in Spain  16. English-medium instruction in higher education in Switzerland Part III: English-medium instruction in higher education in the Middle East, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa  17. English-medium instruction in higher education in the Middle East, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa  18. English-medium instruction in higher education in Egypt  19. English-medium instruction in higher education in Saudi Arabia  20. English-medium instruction in higher education in Turkey  21. English-medium instruction in higher education in the United Arab Emirates  22. English-medium instruction in higher education in East Africa  23. English-medium instruction in higher education in South Africa  24. English-medium instruction in higher education in West Africa Part IV: English-medium instruction in higher education in Asia  25. English-medium instruction in higher education in Asia  26. English medium instruction in higher education in Bangladesh  27. English-medium instruction in higher education in India and Sri Lanka  28. English-medium instruction in higher education in Malaysia  29. English-medium instruction in higher education in Nepal  30. English-medium instruction in higher education in Singapore  31. English-medium instruction in higher education in Cambodia  32. English-medium instruction in higher education in China  33. English-medium instruction in higher education in Indonesia  34. English-medium instruction in higher education in Japan  35. English-medium instruction in higher education in Macau  36. English-medium instruction in higher education in South Korea  37. English-medium instruction in higher education in Taiwan  38. English-medium instruction in higher education in Vietnam

O autorze

Kingsley Bolton is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Research Fellow at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.

 

Werner Botha is Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Australia.

 

Benedict Lin is Senior Lecturer at the Language and Communication Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.