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Ikuya Aizawa – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2025
This study investigates the impact of the language of instruction on assessment outcomes by comparing students' test performance in English (EMI) and Japanese Medium Instruction (JMI) courses. Data were collected from a university in Japan offering parallel Chemistry courses in Japanese and English as part of the same undergraduate curriculum. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Language Usage, Academic Language
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Aizawa, Ikuya; Rose, Heath; Thompson, Gene; Curle, Samantha – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This article examines the relationship between Japanese undergraduate students' English language proficiency and English language-related challenges faced when studying an international business course through English. It also examines English language proficiency thresholds students need to reach in each academic skill (i.e. reading, listening,…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lo, Yuen Yi; Lin, Angel M. Y.; Liu, Yiqi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
In content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classrooms, it is assumed that non-language content subjects provide more authentic communicative contexts for students to learn a foreign/second/additional language (L2). However, learning abstract concepts and academic language in an L2 simultaneously is also challenging for CLIL students. It is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Yuan, Rui; Yang, Min – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study aims to explore a teacher educator's perceptions and practice of translanguaging in his education classrooms as a teacher of English as a medium of instruction (EMI). Adopting a qualitative case study approach, the research revealed that the teacher educator used three translanguaging strategies (i.e. integrating academic discourse with…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Case Studies, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes
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Bilikozen, Neslihan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2019
This article reports on the partial results of a longitudinal study I conducted to investigate the first-year students' experiences in dealing with the challenges they face while attaining the academic literacy skills required of them and constructing their academic identities at an American university in the UAE. While the challenges encountered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Literacy, Reading Skills
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Domingo, Ephraim Viernes – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
Higher education students are increasingly becoming aware of the importance of being successful in oral academic presentations (OAP) in their academic endeavors. For English as a second language students in English-medium institutions, it also provides them with opportunities for language socialization. However, succeeding in the delivery of an…
Descriptors: Coping, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Aktar, Tasnima; Strong, Dina – English Language Teaching, 2019
A considerable amount of studies has been done on the relationship of L2 vocabulary and reading/listening, strategy use and reading/listening, and vocabulary and strategy use in different contexts among different levels of learners; however, little has been known about the relationships among all these variables with the same cohort of learners…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
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Lay, Keith J.; Yavuz, Mehmet A. – Language Learning & Technology, 2020
This study investigates the possibility and efficacy of paper-based, in-class, data-driven learning (DDL) of academic lexical bundles below the C1 level of proficiency described by the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR; advanced high ACTFL). A two-stage experimental design involving three groups (n = 41) and 24 two-to-four word academic…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Rating Scales, Guidelines, Second Language Learning
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Salloum, Sara; BouJaoude, Saouma – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Science teachers mediate social and academic language in science classrooms through teacher talk and classroom discourse. In multilingual classrooms, ways home and international languages are deployed can affect conceptual learning of science. This study investigates, through Bakhtin's dialogic perspective, multilingual language practices and…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Student Diversity, Academic Language