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Andrew Jarvis – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This study used the concept of desire in language learning to explore the first-year English journeys of undergraduates at an English-medium instruction (EMI) university in Hong Kong. Desire in language learning is an underexplored area in EMI research but a relevant concept for gaining a multilayered picture of the incentives and pressures of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ulrikke Rindal – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The use of students' first language (L1) in additional language (L2) instruction has been a recurring theme in language education research. While research has documented the amount of L1 use and its purposes in L2 instruction, little research has investigated the multifaceted motives that influence language choices at the micro level of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
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Wafa Al-Alawi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Due to modernisation and Englishisation in Bahrain, noticeably different types of bilingual and bicultural experiences exist, especially among the youth. Recently, the rise of Chinese education policies in the region raises the question of how it might alter the local linguistic market and the forms of capital within it. Applying a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Nompumelelo Mohohlwane; Stephen Taylor; Jacobus Cilliers; Brahm Fleisch – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
In many countries, children need to become proficient in both their home language (L1) and an international language, such as English (L2). Governments face tradeoffs in how to prioritize these two objectives. We provide empirical evidence on cross-linguistic transfer between L1 and L2, using the results of two randomized evaluations of Structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Yuanyuan Liu; Xiaoli Li – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study explores the professional identity construction of two transnational Chinese language teachers against a backdrop where multilingual and dynamic turns in language teaching and learning are taking place globally. Combining the complex dynamic system theory perspective with the multifaceted nature of language learning and teaching…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Foreign Workers, Language Teachers, Chinese
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Joseph Siegel – ELT Journal, 2024
Taking notes while listening not only aids comprehension and concentration in the moment but also creates an external storage repository of information for later use. As the number of students taking content courses in their L2 in English medium instruction contexts grows, L2 notetaking abilities are beginning to receive much-needed pedagogic and…
Descriptors: Notetaking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Al-Riyami, Thuraya Khalifa; Dayananda, Chinthana Sandaruwan – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This study investigates parents' perspectives towards using English as a medium of instruction (EMI). Hundred and seventeen (117) parents who had children studying at higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Sultanate of Oman answered a questionnaire featuring 40 items with a 5-point Likert-scale response key. Findings indicate that, while many…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, College Students
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Rui Yuan; Xuyan Qiu; Chuang Wang; Tiefu Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Informed by a mixed methods research design, the study investigates the interrelations between students' attitudes toward English learning, English-medium instruction (EMI), and the use of their first language (i.e. code-switching) in relation to a range of biographic and contextual factors in their situated EMI programmes. The quantitative…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Hung Thanh Nguyen; Lap Quoc Trinh; Tho Doan Vo – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: The rapid expansion of English-medium instruction (EMI) programs is a key feature of higher education internationalization, especially in non-native English-speaking countries. Vietnam, aiming to position itself as a global educational hub, recently introduced a medical EMI program for its first large cohort of international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Indians
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Shalva Tabatadze; Kakha Gabunia – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
This study examines the current landscape of language policy in higher educational institutions (HEIs) in Georgia, focusing on teaching, research, and administration. A purposive selection of strategic documents from seventeen public and private universities forms the basis of analysis using Thematic Content Analysis (TCA). The research identifies…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Content Analysis, State Universities
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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
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Brouwer, Jacqui; Daly, Nicola – Early Childhood Folio, 2022
"Te Whariki" promotes the use of te reo rangatira in English-medium early childhood education (ECE) settings. There is a growing body of work concerning the use of pukapuka pikitia (picturebooks) to support language learning, but there is very little, if any, research documenting how pukapuka pikitia can support te reo rangatira. This…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Kindergarten, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Hennebry-Leung, Mairin; Tseng, Wen-Ta; Gao, Xuesong – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Recent conceptualizations of language learning motivation have highlighted its dynamic and contextual nature. Yet the role of the L2 learning context in shaping motivation remains under-explored. This study adopts an agency perspective to examine emerging motivational orientations across diverse medium of instruction settings. The present study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Motivation, Personal Autonomy, Language of Instruction
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Assadullah Sadiq – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
This article examines four Afghan refugee parents/guardians in Islamabad, Pakistan for their beliefs about literacy and language(s). Semi-structured interviews with each parent/guardian showed that they all highly valued reading and writing as essential life skills. However, while they viewed literacy as having instrumental value, they also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Parents, Refugees
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Franz Giuseppe F. Cortez – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
This paper revisits the main thoughts of the Filipino historian and social critic Renato Constantino on the role of education in the formation of a neocolonial and postcolonial consciousness. It suggests that Constantino's critical stance towards education embodies a type of philosophizing about education that centers on the problematization of…
Descriptors: Historians, Educational History, Role of Education, Postcolonialism
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