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Liu, Yang; Fang, Fan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
This article explores the recent development of translanguaging from the perspective of multilingualism. This is in light of the multilingual turn in the field of foreign language teaching, particularly English language teaching (ELT), which challenges the fixed and traditional monolingual framework for foreign language education. In particular,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Reynolds, Dudley – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
Debates around the impact of English-medium instruction (EMI) as part of transnational higher education (TNHE) typically focus on macro-level impacts on host country languages, cultures, and economies. Adopting the methodology of institutional ethnographies, this reflective study narrates how I came to find problematic such totalizing narratives…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yuan, Rui – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
While there is a growing research interest in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) teaching and learning in university contexts, relatively limited attention has been paid to EMI teacher development. Drawing on my past and ongoing teaching and research practice as an EMI teacher educator, this Viewpoint article considers the emotional,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Tupas, Ruanni – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
This article explores language policy in Southeast Asia, focussing on two recent state and other institutional reform efforts and directions: one towards English, and the other towards the mother tongues. However, what needs to be highlighted is the bifurcated nature of language policy reforms in the region. That is, these two policy directions…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Social Justice, Nationalism, Competition
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McKay, Sandra Lee – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
A great deal has been written about what English as an International Language (EIL) actually is (e.g. Alsagoff et al., 2012; Matsuda, 2012; McKay and Brown, 2016; Sharifian, 2009), ranging from a view of EIL as the many varieties of English that are spoken today to the use of English by second language speakers of English. Thus, EIL is viewed both…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Dewey, Martin – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This viewpoint article provides a critical reflection on the gatekeeping and academic language practices of Anglophone universities, evaluating these in light of the promotional claims universities make about internationalization and global reach. I then consider the arguments put forward in each of the main articles in this special issue from…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Poedjosoedarmo, Gloria – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
English has been an important language of education in Brunei since the inception of public education there but, as is often the case when a language becomes a second language within a country, it is taking on some unique local characteristics, despite official condemnation of such developments. Can the desired balance of roles between English and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Public Education, Language of Instruction