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Transnational Technical Communication: English as a Business Lingua Franca in Engineering Workplaces
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Direct linkHodges, Amy; Seawright, Leslie – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2023
Recent scholarship argues for increased attention to students' linguistic diversity and intercultural communication competence. Our study examined the experiences of 10 working engineers who had graduated from an English-medium international branch campus in the Arabian Gulf. An analysis of their interviews reveals the complex role of English as a…
Descriptors: Engineering, Work Environment, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
Vararin Charoenpornsook; Athip Thumvichit – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2025
English-medium instruction (EMI) is gaining popularity in higher education (HE) worldwide, with the aim of enhancing students' English proficiency and professional abilities. However, many students still struggle with learning various subjects in English. While the challenges in EMI are widely discussed in many studies, it is necessary to look…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Coping, Language of Instruction, Language Proficiency
Download full textHsu, Wenhua – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
English-medium instruction (EMI) is gaining popularity among EFL higher education institutions. However, not all EMI programs provide the same English immersion as those in the Anglosphere. The researcher targeted English medium university textbooks as a research focus, since they are first and foremost learning material of specialist knowledge…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Computational Linguistics
Barnawi, Osman Z. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper argues that reading English Medium Instruction (EMI) as a performative technology of acceleration in the highly competitive conditions of today's global higher education (HE) contexts is one way to gain insights into present-day realities of EMI orientations, experiences, and practices. In so doing, it examines the interplay of EMI, HE,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, College Faculty, Language Teachers
Hsu, Wenhua – Journal of English Teaching, 2021
English-medium instruction (EMI) has become a nationwide trend in Taiwan's higher education institutions. Behind this rapid growth is the widespread belief that EMI provides English immersion, which facilitates incidental learning of the target language. However, not all EMI programs in EFL contexts provide the same immersion as those in the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Ramjattan, Vijay A. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
International teaching assistants (ITAs) are criticized for having 'unintelligible' accents for professional communication in Global North English-medium universities. Furthermore, this criticism takes a racist form as it is frequently directed at racially minoritized ITAs. This article complicates this narrative by considering how the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Assistants, Foreign Nationals, Communication Skills
Akif Çal; Tessa Mearns; Wilfried Admiraal – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2025
This study aims to explore to what extent engineering students' perceptions of the role of English in the workplace are affected by their internship and field of study. Previous research revealed that employers value engineers' English communication skills highly. However, mismatches between workplace expectations and engineers' competencies…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Language Role
Carmela Oria Alonso; Lucila María Pérez Fernández – Discover Education, 2025
The persistent challenge of English proficiency in Spain, particularly in higher education, has gained critical importance due to global industry demands. Despite over 15 years of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) initiatives under the European Higher Education Area framework, linguistic shortcomings remain prevalent. This study examines the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Engineering Education, Language of Instruction, College Instruction
Thepseenu, Benjaporn – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2020
This study aimed to investigate civil engineering students' English language learning needs and perceptions of their English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course based on the past students' perspectives (Brown, 2016). The study sample comprised 85 third-year Thai students, majoring in civil engineering at University of Phayao, Thailand in the…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Engineering Education
Mira, Sara; San José Martínez, Fernando; Hontoria, Chiquinquira; Sanz-Cobena, Alberto; Rodríguez Sinobas, Leonor; Cuadrado, Georgina – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
While new cohorts of students, with an increasing awareness of the importance of foreign languages, especially English, are arriving at the universities, English-medium instruction (EMI) is one of the main instruments to internationalise universities. However, research on attitudes of teachers and students towards EMI programmes is scarce in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
Alhamami, Munassir – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: This study examines the influence of English as the medium of instruction (EMI) in the engineering college of a public university in a non-native English-speaking country, Saudi Arabia. The study analyzes alumni grade-point average (GPA) records and their English proficiency levels at the first year according to their transcripts.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Yuksel, Dogan; Soruç, Adem; Horzum, Baris; McKinley, Jim – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study focuses on the predictive power of linguistic (i.e., general English proficiency; identified simply as "proficiency" in this paper) and non-linguistic (i.e., language learning anxiety and self-regulation) factors on the academic success of English medium instruction (EMI) students studying in engineering and social sciences…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Anxiety
Ha Van Le; Long Quoc Nguyen – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2024
This study conducted a comparative analysis of critical reading skills among engineering students at private universities in Malaysia and Vietnam, using the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) reading framework. Involving 182 undergraduates, the research included a quantitative critical reading test followed by statistical…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
Sana Touahmia; Farhana Bakar – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2024
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the attitudes of English medium instruction (EMI) lecturers and students and non-EMI lecturers and students toward English in Algeria. The Algerian government plans to implement English as a medium of instruction in higher education. Methods: The research was carried out at an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Government Role
Adem Soruç; Dogan Yuksel; Baris Horzum; Jim McKinley; Heath Rose – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
This study explored changes in English language proficiency and several non-linguistic factors during four years of English medium instruction (EMI) in two academic disciplines in a Turkish university setting. Moreover, it also investigated whether changes (if any) had a predictive impact on the academic success of EMI students. In addition,…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
