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Sihan Zhou; Nathan Thomas – Language and Education, 2025
English-medium instruction (EMI) has burgeoned alongside two decades of L2 self-regulated learning research. In both areas, listening remains under-researched, longitudinal designs are under-employed, and in-depth studies are necessary to unpack learner development. In a context believed to initiate self-regulated learning, the current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lu, Chaoqun; So, Winnie Wing Mui; Lee, Yeung Chung; Yeung, Yau Yuen – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
English is being used as a medium of instruction (EMI) for delivering science lessons in China. This study investigated Chinese high school international programme students' perceptions of and attitudes towards EMI, particularly about their perceived difficulties and support in learning. A questionnaire with Likert-type items, student group…
Descriptors: High School Students, Language of Instruction, Likert Scales, Science Instruction
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Singh, Jasvir Kaur Nachatar; Kaur, Amrita – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
While China has emerged as a leading host country for international students, it reinforces its determination to build a global knowledge system by integrating Chinese and Western epistemological traditions in teaching and learning to promote epistemic justice. The study aims to explore international students' challenges to current approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Foreign Students
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Yoo Young Ahn – English Teaching, 2023
This study explores the perceptions of Chinese engineering-major students towards their English learning experience after taking a mandatory English composition course in an EMI college. The investigation centers on first-year students' perceptions of transitioning to EMI, with a focus on how the composition course has assisted students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Language of Instruction
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Hussain, Wazir Arif; Shao, Yunfei; Liu, Bo; Abbas, Hussain; Sallieu Jalloh, Ibrahim; Akhtar Jamsheed, Rizwan; Javed, Muhammad – Cogent Education, 2023
Every year millions of students travel to other countries to pursue their dreams of becoming skilled and knowledgeable professionals with expertise. However, they have to face some challenges and difficulties during studying abroad. The current study aimed to examine and identify the academic problems faced by foreign postgraduates while studying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Han, Shuangmiao – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
The development of English as Medium of Instruction (EMI) at the tertiary level has been accelerated by the ever-increasing degree of higher education internationalisation. The study, based on a survey with 112 students and semi-structured interviews with 16 instructors collected at a Sino-foreign cooperative education institution in China,…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Tang, Huili; Hite, Steven J.; Hite, Julie M.; Boren, David McKay; Randall, E. Vance – Journal of International Education in Business, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this ontologically qualitative research study was to: (1) explore student narratives regarding their educational experiences in at-home internationalization programs; (2) provide an in-depth narrative analysis of student learning challenges and achievements; and (3) add valuable research-based knowledge of student-described…
Descriptors: International Education, Business Administration Education, Grounded Theory, Barriers
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Mattia Miani; Shih-Ching Picucci-Huang – Chinese Education & Society, 2023
The paper presents a scoping review of research on transnational education in China published from 2016, the last year that a comprehensive literature review on the subject was published in "Chinese Education & Society." The authors delimited a corpus of 88 articles focusing on collaborative transnational education in China and…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Cooperation, International Cooperation, College Faculty
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Shi, Dan; Irwin, Derek; Du, Ping – Classroom Discourse, 2023
The present study aims to explore an embodied approach to students' deep learning; specifically, how deep learning is interactively achieved through teachers' languaging dynamics and multimodal representations in interactive lecturing in L2 higher education (HE) contexts. The purpose is to understand how an instructor's embodied and multimodal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication, Student Participation
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Ou, Wanyu Amy; Gu, Michelle Mingyue – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Previous research on classroom interaction in international university contexts tended to focus on individual speakers' language (in)competence. This paper adopts a translanguaging and spatial orientation to intercultural classroom interaction and highlights the role of situated assemblages of linguistic, semiotic and multimodal resources embedded…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, College Faculty, College Students