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Ulum, Omer Gokhan – English Language Teaching, 2020
Turkey has adopted a new trend regarding English-medium education in recent decades. The development of capitalism has also affected Turkey and the Turkish education system. The Turkish Council of Higher Education has aspired to make higher education in Turkey more global and international. Therefore, the British Council has prepared a report to…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Goundar, Prashneel Ravisan – English Language Teaching, 2019
Language is something many individuals take for granted. It is usually when we discover that our language (or language variety) is different from and perhaps less valued than, the language of others or that our options are somehow limited, either because 'we do not speak/understand a language or language variety, or use it inappropriately or…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries
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Moreno, Martha; Pájaro, Milton – English Language Teaching, 2018
This article presents a constructive criticism and also a prospectus about the suggested curriculum and the process of indisciplining the curriculum. It considers that through a process of indisciplining the English curriculum it would be possible to achieve the goals stated by the National Ministry of Education in terms of bilingualism and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
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San Isidro, Xabier; Lasagabaster, David – English Language Teaching, 2019
In Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), the design of a language policy at school level is not only bound up with the number of languages used for learning and the number of hours devoted to teaching those languages, but also with the fact that language becomes specialised in relation to the subject, which impacts on the methodology…
Descriptors: Course Content, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Liu, Dianping; Xue, Sijia; Hu, Rong – English Language Teaching, 2019
The internationalization of education brings different challenges to local education of different communities. Traditional EFL education in Chinese universities may also encounter such challenges. Against this background, this study investigates the challenges and solutions for college EFL education in ethnic minority regions of China. A narrative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Technology
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Yeung, Marine; Lu, Vic – English Language Teaching, 2018
The medium of instruction (MOI) has been a bone of contention in Hong Kong, a former British colony, since its colonial days. Despite the Hong Kong government's effort to promote the "biliterate and trilingual" language policy, advocating Cantonese, English and Putonghua as the three official spoken languages and emphasizing the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Martí, Otilia; Portolés, Laura – English Language Teaching, 2019
In line with van Kampen et al.'s (2018) research about specialist and practitioner perceptions on the goals for CLIL in the Netherlands, the present study addresses Hüttner, Dalton-Puffer and Smit's (2013) call for investigating teachers' beliefs about CLIL in European countries like Spain where this teaching approach is highly institutionalized.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Course Content
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Debreli, Emre – English Language Teaching, 2016
The study of L1 (first language) use in L2 (second language) classrooms has long received attention in the literature. Despite the considerable amount of research that has been conducted on the phenomenon, the focus has often been on the advantages and disadvantages. Considerably, less research has been conducted regarding the non-native L2…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Hung, Bui Phu; Hai, Tran Thi – English Language Teaching, 2016
Content-based instruction programs carried out in higher education in Ho Chi Minh City rests against national language-in-education policy and planning. However, in the first phase of implementation, this kind of courses proves problematic. This present study investigated teachers' and students' opinions on the implementation of content-based…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Course Content
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Asif, Sadia; Bashir, Rahat; Zafar, Shabana – English Language Teaching, 2018
English as a medium of instruction and communication is becoming a central pedagogy in various countries in the world. In Pakistan, most of the advanced academic institutions use English as their medium of instruction, however students and teachers have been observed communicating in their first languages, especially Urdu, in the classrooms. This…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yahaya, Mohamad Fadhili Bin; Noor, Mohd Asri Bin Mohd; Mokhtar, Ahmad Azman Bin; Rawian, Rafizah Binti Mohd; Othman, Mahmod Bin; Jusoff, Kamaruzaman – English Language Teaching, 2009
The policy to change the medium of instruction in the teaching of Mathematics and Science from Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language) to English in 2003 is an important innovation affecting not only the students but also teachers of Mathematics and Science. However, how far the changes affect the teachers is the issue addressed in the paper. In fact the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Language of Instruction