Evolving agendas in European English-medium higher education : interculturality, multilingualism and language policy / Clive W. Earls.
2016
PE1068.E92
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Title
Evolving agendas in European English-medium higher education : interculturality, multilingualism and language policy / Clive W. Earls.
ISBN
9781137543127 (electronic book)
1137543124 (electronic book)
9781137543110
1137543124 (electronic book)
9781137543110
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages)
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PE1068.E92
Dewey Decimal Classification
428.0071/14
Summary
"English medium-of-instruction (EMI) is transforming modern-day universities across the globe, creating increasingly complex linguistic and intercultural realities which lecturers, students and decision-makers must negotiate. Teaching subject matter at higher-education level through the medium of English, in countries where English is neither an official nor national language (e.g. the Netherlands, Germany), is a highly complex phenomenon fraught with challenges and benefits. EMI programmes are capable of transforming domestic degree programmes into platforms of intercultural teaching and learning by infusing them with greater numbers of international faculty and students. Equally however, EMI programmes pose a socio-linguistic, -cultural and -economic challenge by institutionalising English at higher-education level within a country and displacing somewhat national and minority languages. This book, the first of its kind, provides an up-to-date and empirically-informed exploration of these salient themes in Europe, based on significant empirical data gathered and analysed on the German EMI context"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Revision of "An exploration of language-in-education policy and practice: the experience of English-medium degree programmes in Germany", 2013.
Dissertation Note
University of Limerick, Ph. D. 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
English in contemporary German society and English medium-of-instruction programmes
Language policy and planning in 21st- century Europe
Internationalisation, globalisation and English-medium higher education
English medium-of-instruction programmes as platforms of intercultural teaching and learning
English medium-of-instruction programmes as a mechanism of 'Brain drain, gain and circulation'
English medium-of-instruction programmes as a concomitant challenge to, and mechanism of, implicit German language policy
English medium-of-instruction at higher education: advancing understanding of the phenomenon.
English in contemporary German society and English medium-of-instruction programmes
Language policy and planning in 21st- century Europe
Internationalisation, globalisation and English-medium higher education
English medium-of-instruction programmes as platforms of intercultural teaching and learning
English medium-of-instruction programmes as a mechanism of 'Brain drain, gain and circulation'
English medium-of-instruction programmes as a concomitant challenge to, and mechanism of, implicit German language policy
English medium-of-instruction at higher education: advancing understanding of the phenomenon.