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Direct linkYawen Han; Juan Dong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The adoption of English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education has gained popularity in China's tertiary education as a result of globalization. International students in Chinese universities are celebrated as part of soft power projection to extend China's global impact. Informed by Piller and Cho's concept of "Neoliberalism as…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Yawen Han; Dan Li; Juan Dong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Informed by the theoretical concepts of 'practiced' language policy and space, the study investigates the language practices of English-medium Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) programs for international students, focusing on the interactional norms of language choice in a Chinese hospital where international students are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Role, English (Second Language)
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)
Heng Cai; Miao Yang; Danping Wen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The past few decades have seen a boom in English-medium instruction (EMI) in Chinese universities. Despite growing research interest in EMI policy and practices in China, little is known about how students' motivation to study in the EMI programs is influenced by EMI policy and its implementation at the meso and micro levels. This study addresses…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Medical Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedZhou, Minglang – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2005
The People's Republic of China has employed two means of literacy promotion: a campaign approach and a legislative approach to meet the needs of nation-state building through education. From 1949 through to the late 1970s, the campaign approach was motivated by a political rationale, but later an economic rationale also became important. From the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Literacy Education, Compulsory Education, Minority Groups
