The Secret Life of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education

This volume explores the inner-workings of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education (HE) at two universities. This book is written for scholars interested in issues surrounding EMI in HE in general, as well as practitioners who wish to know more about the ins and outs of EMI in HE from multiple perspectives.

Autorentext

David Block is ICREA Research Professor in Sociolinguistics at the Univeristat Pompeu Fabra, Spain.

Sarah Khan is Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Technology at The University of Vic Central University of Catalonia, Spain.

Inhalt

1: The secret life of English-medium instruction: Setting the scene (David Block and Sarah Khan) 2 Language issues in EMI: when lecturers and students can choose the language of instruction (Elisabet Arnó-Macià and Marta Aguilar-Pérez) 3 'Being a student' and 'doing education': A multimodal analysis of backstage and frontstage interactional episodes in EMI (Balbina Moncada-Comas) 4 Whispers of resistance to EMI policies: The management of Englishisation through alternative local multilingual practices and dissenting identities (Maria Sabaté-Dalmau) 5 NOT English teachers, except when they are: The curious case of oral presentation evaluation rubrics in an EMI-in-HE context (David Block and Guzman Mancho-Barés) 6 The secret life of English-medium instruction unraveled (Sarah Khan)