The Secret Life of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education: Examining Microphenomena in Context

ISBN-13: 9780367437725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 138 str.

David Block; Sarah Khan

Opis

This volume explores the inner-workings of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education (HE) at two universities. This book is written for scholars interested in issues surrounding EMI in HE in general, as well as practitioners who wish to know more about the ins and outs of EMI in HE from multiple perspectives.

Spis treści

1: The secret life of English-medium instruction: Setting the scene (David Block and Sarah Khan) 2 Language issues in EMI: when lecturers and students can choose the language of instruction (Elisabet Arnó-Macià and Marta Aguilar-Pérez) 3 ‘Being a student' and ‘doing education’: A multimodal analysis of backstage and frontstage interactional episodes in EMI (Balbina Moncada-Comas) 4 Whispers of resistance to EMI policies: The management of Englishisation through alternative local multilingual practices and dissenting identities (Maria Sabaté-Dalmau) 5 NOT English teachers, except when they are: The curious case of oral presentation evaluation rubrics in an EMI-in-HE context (David Block and Guzman Mancho-Barés) 6 The secret life of English-medium instruction unraveled (Sarah Khan)