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Hywel Coleman; Nur Fauzan Ahmad; Nilawati Hadisantosa; Kuchah Kuchah; Martin Lamb; Dana Waskita – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Research on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Higher Education (HE) has tended to have a technicist orientation, examining for example how it is implemented and the challenges it has encountered. Much less critical attention has been given to the rationales that language policy makers and other stakeholders offer for introducing EMI - the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deans, Higher Education, College Students
Shirahata, Mai; Lahti, Malgorzata – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology -- a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Soler, Josep; Vihman, Virve-Anneli – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
In recent years, interest in the study of language policy issues in the context of universities has grown considerably. One reason for this is the coexistence of two apparently contradictory discourses, centering around nationalising and globalising orientations. Universities are seen by many as the key institutions for safeguarding the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance
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Selvi, Ali Fuad – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
Situated at the intersection of sociolinguistic and educational planes, English as a medium-of-instruction debate has always been at the crux of the intense debates, and offers a lens for a systematic investigation of the spread of English in Turkey. As Turkey is moving toward greater integration with the European Union and promoting its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning