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

148 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

148 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

148 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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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... Read more

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)