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Admire Mhindu – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Mother Tongue Education (MTE), despite being the most reliable method of learning, is a challenge for the African countries that fail to implement MTE policies due to lack of resources, stakeholders' attitudes towards mother tongues, and lack of political will. Keeping in view the plight of the primary implementers of such policies, hence, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Native Language Instruction, Language Minorities
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Yerbol Sarmurzin; Nazerke Amanzhol; Kamshat Toleubayeva; Marina Zhunusova; Aray Amanova; Akbota Abiyr – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
The research reported in this article explored the implementation of Trilingual Education Policy in Kazakhstan. The authors explain the challenges stakeholders came across while taking on the reforms in the language-in-education policy. In this context, the scholars describe four main challenges, such as the simultaneous implementation of several…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Educational Change
Thi Kim Anh Dang; Gary Bonar; Jiazhou Yao – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The internationalisation of higher education (HE) worldwide has led to an expansion of courses using English-as-a-medium-of-instruction (EMI) in non-native-English-speaking countries. Research has identified complex challenges facing EMI educators in implementing EMI policies and suggested separately the significant roles educators' agency and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language of Instruction, Universities, English (Second Language)
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Rifat Kamasak; Kari Sahan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The growth of English medium instruction (EMI) programs at universities worldwide has raised questions about the implications of teaching through L2 English on students' content learning outcomes. This study examined the impact of four factors on students' academic success (e.g. content learning) in the Turkish EMI context: (1) students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Shirahata, Mai; Lahti, Malgorzata – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology -- a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Mir Afzal Tajik; Syed Abdul Manan; Uli Schamiloglu; Gulnara Namyssova – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This study investigated multilingual students' linguistic challenges at English-medium instruction (EMI) universities in Kazakhstan. Using language policy and planning as a theoretical lens, this study looked at EMI policy in general, particularly the academic English challenges of students due to a haphazard implementation of the EMI policy in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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Karabassova, Laura – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The research reported in this paper explored secondary Science teachers' experiences in a large-scale and top-down CLIL initiative where schools and teachers had little agency in implementing educational change. Through a grounded theory approach, analysis of data suggests that teachers' insufficient English language proficiency and the lack of…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Teaching Experience
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Bronwen Dyson; Gaby Ramia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Universities in anglophone countries responded to soaring numbers of non-traditional enrolments by expanding student support services. They have done so without being able to guarantee that international students will develop in their English language during a university degree (Humphreys, 2022, The need for English language development in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Universities, Nontraditional Students
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Sah, Pramod K. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article provides a critical review of English medium instruction (EMI) policy/practices in the K-12 multilingual schools in South Asia, especially in Nepal, India, and Pakistan. Employing Bourdieu's (1993) lens of 'linguistic capital' and 'linguistic marketplace,' the article takes stock of (a) the development of EMI and its ideological and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Elementary Schools
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Siyan Dang – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
The utilization of English-medium Instruction (EMI) has become increasingly prevalent in Japanese higher education as a means of promoting internationalisation. International students who come to study in Japan are likely to encounter unforeseen multilingual situations where they are forced to learn the local language. This study employed a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
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Sahan, Kari – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
As part of the trend toward internationalization of higher education, governments and universities have introduced policies to encourage the expansion of English-medium instruction (EMI). However, top-down policies do not necessarily translate to teaching and learning practices. This article provides a case study examining the implementation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Undergraduate Study, Engineering Education
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Kari Sahan; Özgür Sahan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This study examines the phenomenon of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education through the lens of neoliberalism and linguistic entrepreneurship. Although commonly reported benefits of EMI include improved English proficiency and better job opportunities, there is a lack of research critically examining the relationship between EMI and…
Descriptors: Alumni, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ann E. Roemer – Language and Education, 2024
This research, conducted at a major university in Tanzania, investigated the personal experiences of multilingual students vis-à-vis the government's language policy requiring Swahili as the language of instruction (LoI) at the primary level and English at the secondary level. The participants, who spoke 25 different languages as their L1, were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, African Languages, Language of Instruction, Language Attitudes
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Salah Ben Hammou; Abdelaziz Kesbi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The Moroccan Ministry of Education has recently implemented a multilingual programme, called 'language alternation' (LA). The programme aims at improving students' foreign language (FL) proficiency level and promoting plurilingualism by using French, English, and Spanish, for the teaching of math, physics and life and earth sciences at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Julie A. Panagiotopoulou; Yasemin Uçan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Studies on Family Language Policy state that the shape of family multilingualism is embedded in diverse conditions within and outside the family, like historical, social and political factors, which influence family language practices. In this regard, the monolingual orientation of early childhood education (ECE) institutions in many European…
Descriptors: Refugees, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning
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