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English medium instruction: Global views and countries in focus

Introduction to the symposium held at the Department of Education, University of Oxford on Wednesday 4 November 2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2017

Ernesto Macaro ,
Anna Kristina Hultgren ,
Andy Kirkpatrick  and
David Lasagabaster
Ernesto Macaro
Affiliation:
Centre for Research and Development in English Medium Instruction, University of Oxford, UKernesto.macaro@education.ox.ac.uk
Anna Kristina Hultgren
Affiliation:
The Open University, UKkristina.hultgren@open.ac.uk
Andy Kirkpatrick
Affiliation:
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australiaa.kirkpatrick@griffith.edu.au
David Lasagabaster
Affiliation:
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spaindavid.lasagabaster@ehu.es
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In virtually every research paper on this topic we come across we read that, in the particular context that the writer is operating, English as a medium of instruction (EMI) is on the increase. But what exactly is EMI? If we consider every classroom around the world in which learners are exposed to English language as their second language (L2) we are faced with a huge variety: English as a foreign language (EFL); Immersion, English for academic purposes; English for specific purposes, English for examination purposes, Content and language integrated learning (CLIL); content-based teaching; content-based language teaching, and so on. And then we have EMI. Here at the EMI Oxford Centre we define EMI as:

The use of the English language to teach academic subjects (other than English itself) in countries or jurisdictions in which the majority of the population's first language is not English.

This definition was first used in Dearden (2015).

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Language Teaching , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , April 2019 , pp. 231 - 248
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