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Ben Hammou, Salah; Kesbi, Abdelaziz – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
The present study explored a small-scale English medium instruction (EMI) initiative in Moroccan secondary schools, which is part of a top-down multilingual policy based on teaching science subjects through foreign languages, namely French, English, and Spanish. 18 secondary EMI teachers of math, physics and life and earth sciences were…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Science Instruction
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Lanteigne, Betty – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
Jumbled sentence items in language assessment have been criticized by some authors as inauthentic. However, unscrambling jumbled sentences is a common occurrence in real-world communication in English as a lingua franca. Naturalistic inquiry identified 54 instances of jumbled sentence use in daily life in Dubai/Sharjah, where English is widely…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Test Items, Language Tests
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Briggs, Jessica G.; Dearden, Julie; Macaro, Ernesto – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
Learning content through the medium of a second language is a form of education which is growing rapidly in both secondary and tertiary educational phases. Yet, although considerable research now exists on these phases of education viewed separately, virtually no comparisons have been made between the two phases. This study compared beliefs about…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers
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Dearden, Julie; Macaro, Ernesto – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
We report on a small scale study carried out in Austria, Italy and Poland which investigated the attitudes of university teachers engaged in teaching their academic subject through the medium of English. The data consisted of 25 teacher interviews. We focused on the topics of internationalisation of universities, on policy and resourcing, and on…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)