Evolving agendas in European English-medium higher education
Subtitle: interculturality, multilingualism and language policy
By: Clive W. Earls
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781137543110
Subjects: Language policy; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching; Study and teaching (Higher); EDUCATION / Higher; English language; Multilingualism; Interdisciplinary approach in education; Intercultural communication
Description: "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"--
Notes: Thesis - University of Limerick, Ph.D., 2013.

Revision of "An exploration of language-in-education policy and practice: the experience of English-medium degree programmes in Germany", 2013.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: English in Contemporary German Society & English Medium-of-instruction Programmes; title: Language Policy and Planning in 21st Century Europe; title: Internationalisation, Globalisation and English-medium Higher Education; title: English Medium-of-instruction Programmes as Platforms of Intercultural Teaching and Learning; title: English Medium-of-instruction Programmes as a Mechanism of Brain Drain, Gain and Circulation; title: English Medium-of-instruction Programmes as a Concomitant Challenge to, and Mechanism of, Implicit German Language Policy.