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Yongliang Wang; Ali Derakhshan; Hadi Rahimpour – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With the emergence of the positive psychology trend, studying teacher resilience has gained tremendous momentum in mainstream education. Nonetheless, it has yet remained an underappreciated concept in English language education and research. The challenges that teachers experience in maintaining their resilience have also been the focus of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Rui Yuan; Mo Li; Jing Peng; Xuyan Qiu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Drawing upon a collection of curriculum proposals and reflections and informed by a textual analysis approach, this study investigated how 234 university teachers planned to enact and reform their English-medium instruction courses (n = 66) in an English as a foreign language (EFL) university context. Results reveal that the teachers tend to adopt…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Higher Education
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Bradford, Annette – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
The number of universities offering English-medium instruction (EMI) is growing in Japan. Yet, academic programmes taught in English have not reached their full potential. One powerful barrier to the improvement of these programmes is a misperception that English language proficiency is the defining factor for success. After outlining the growth…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), College Faculty, Language Proficiency
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Macaro, Ernesto; Han, Shuangmiao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Despite the increasing popularity of English Medium Instruction (EMI) for academic subject teaching in China, there is little research regarding the competencies that an EMI teacher needs for effective EMI course delivery and professional development (PD) in the higher education (HE) context. No research has investigated how those can be…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Han, Yawen; Gao, Xuesong; Xia, Jinyuan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
In light of China's 'Belt and Road' initiative, many mainland Chinese universities have been promoting non-English foreign language degree programs at the undergraduate level. This study examines the growth of these non-English foreign language programs by collecting and analysing a variety of data on curriculum design, teachers and learners…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Tao, Jian; Zhao, Ke; Chen, Xiuwen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Language teachers' motivation and self is essential to their long-term commitment and professional development. Drawing on Language Teacher Self theory, the study reports on the professional experiences of seven teachers teaching languages other than English (LOTEs) in a Chinese university with shifting teacher appraisal policy. The findings…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction