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Educators' Agency in Implementing English-Medium-Instruction in Chinese Higher Education: A Cultural-Historical Perspective
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Thi Kim Anh Dang; Gary Bonar; Jiazhou Yao – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The internationalisation of higher education (HE) worldwide has led to an expansion of courses using English-as-a-medium-of-instruction (EMI) in non-native-English-speaking countries. Research has identified complex challenges facing EMI educators in implementing EMI policies and suggested separately the significant roles educators' agency and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language of Instruction, Universities, English (Second Language)
Englishization Policy Distraction in the Internationalization of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia
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Othman Z. Barnawi; Ayman Alzahrani – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Deploying what we term 'Englishization policy distraction' in the internationalization of higher education as both a theoretical and analytical concept, this paper frames and examines how the epistemic violence of internationalization of the HE is bypassed and invisibilized through Englishization policy and English medium education in Saudi…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Planning
The Politics of Distraction in English-Medium Higher Education across Three Global Settings: A Collaborative Autoethnography
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Sarah Hopkyns; Sender Dovchin; Shaila Sultana – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
English-medium instruction (EMI) is on the rise around the world due to globalization, internationalization and neoliberal ideologies which equate English with social capital, prestige, and success in the labour market. While many EMI policies aim to equip students with English as a 'lingua academia', produce 'neoliberal subjects' and compete in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
The Situatedness of Hybrid Practitioner Agency in the Internationalisation of Japanese Higher Education and the Necessity of Transversal Policy Enactors
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Robert M. Higgins – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study explored a contemporary period of Japanese higher education policy planning that adopted internationalisation of higher education as a metanarrative for sociocultural change in Japan. These wider societal pressures have over a period of time contributed to increasing institutional resistance to top-down policy initiatives. Further,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Higher Education, Professional Autonomy