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

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

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Series: Routledge Focus on English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education

English as a Second LanguageBilingual EducationGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0367437724
ISBN13: 9780367437725
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 27 2020
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

This volume explores the inner-workings of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education (HE) at two universities. After an introductory chapter that sets the scene and provides an essential background, there are four empirically based chapters that draw on data collected from a range of sources at two universities in Catalonia. This includes interviews, audio/video recordings of classes, audio logs produced by both lecturers and students, policy documents, students' written work, and student presentation evaluation rubrics. These chapters examine the following issues: (1) the choice of either English or Catalan as the medium of instruction by students and lecturers; (2) how students display ambivalence towards EMI, as well as a general lack of enthusiasm towards and an ironic distance from 'doing education'; (3) how students resist EMI by contravening its English monolingual norm, using their L1s in the classroom; and finally, (4) how EMI lecturers on occasion act as English language teachers despite their continued claims to the contrary. The book ends with a concluding chapter that draws all of the strands together around key themes.

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