Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education

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Including contributions that cover diverse settings, this book situates EMI within wider sociopolitical contexts of knowledge and language. It addresses issues of ideology, policy, identity, justice, and the politics of English in EMI, making it essential reading for researchers and students of applied linguistics and English language education.

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Foreword Ruanni Tupas; 1. Critical views of English medium instruction Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini and Peter I. De Costa; Part I. Ideologies and Educational Policies: 2. Conceptualizations of English in an Italian EMI context Francesca Helm; 3. Ideologies of language use in an EMI university in Hong Kong: the perspectives of international students Matthew Sung; 4. Burdening EMI with unnecessary baggage: critiquing an EMI case in Japan as an ideologically-laden undertaking Glenn Toh and Mark Zion; 5. Entrepreneurial orientations towards language and education: EMI policy in Kazakhstan Aigerim Kazhigaliyeva, Syed Abdul Manan and Anas Hajar; 6. A critical approach to the rise of EMI: why, how and by whom are decisions made? Dogan Yuksel, Peter Wingrove, Marion Nao, Beatrice Zuaro and Anna Kristina Hultgren; Part II. Identity and Educational Justice: 7. EMI teachers' discourses and the configuration of their identities in two Colombian universities Mario Molina-Naar and Isabel Tejada-Sánchez; 8. 'I just opened my heart': challenges and contradictions in multilingual EMI teacher identity construction D. Philip Montgomery; 9. Perpetuating inequality in higher education EMI in Ethiopia, Poland, and Japan Jim McKinley, Tolera Simie and Agata Mikolajewska; Part III. The Politics of English in Education: 10. Problematizing 'English' in EMI: a view from Malaysia and Brazil Azirah Hashim and Kyria Finardi; 11. A fractured dream of the decolonization and deeliticization of English within EMI programs in South Asia Shaila Sultana; 12. Reproducing the dominance of English through EMI in post-apartheid South Africa Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu; 13. EMI, cognitive capture, and decoloniality Kathleen Heugh; Afterword Graham V. Crookes.