English-medium instruction in European higher education: Measurement validity and the state of play in 2023/2024

IF 3.6 1区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS

Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI:10.1093/applin/amaf020

Peter Wingrove, Beatrice Zuaro, Dogan Yuksel, Marion Nao, Anna Kristina Hultgren

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Abstract

Notwithstanding the wide consensus that English-medium instruction (EMI) in European higher education has grown explosively since the turn of the century (Wächter, B., and Maiworm, F. 2014. English-taught programmes in European higher education: The state of play in 2014. Bonn: Lemmens), there has been little research which addresses issues related to operationalizing EMI, nor has a pan-European update on EMI figures been given since 2013. This study fills these gaps by (1) applying a measurement validity process (Adcock and Collier 2001) to operationalizing and measuring EMI and (2) applying the resultant framework to up-to-date figures on the state-of-play of EMI in European higher education in the academic year 2023/2024. A total of 24,043 ETPs were identified in 2023/24, compared to 8,089 in 2013, showing approximately three-fold growth over the decade. Geographically, our modern data shows that EMI is practiced more widely in 2023/2024, no longer as concentrated in Northern Europe. EMI is mostly practiced at the master’s level; and the most popular disciplines are ‘business and management’, ‘engineering and technology’ and ‘computer science and IT’. We discuss the theoretical and methodological implications for future research operationalizing and measuring EMI growth.

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欧洲高等教育英语教学：2023/2024年的测量效度和运行状态

尽管人们普遍认为，自世纪之交以来，欧洲高等教育中的英语教学（EMI）呈爆炸式增长（Wächter， B., and Maiworm， F. 2014）。2014年欧洲高等教育英语授课课程现状波恩：Lemmens)，很少有研究解决与EMI操作相关的问题，也没有泛欧自2013年以来提供的EMI数据更新。本研究通过以下方式填补了这些空白：(1)将测量有效性过程（Adcock and Collier 2001）应用于操作和测量EMI；(2)将所得到的框架应用于2023/2024学年欧洲高等教育EMI现状的最新数据。2023/24年度共发现24,043个etp，而2013年为8,089个，十年来增长了约三倍。从地理上看，我们的现代数据显示，在2023/2024年，EMI的应用范围更广，不再集中在北欧。EMI主要在硕士阶段进行；最受欢迎的学科是“商业与管理”、“工程与技术”和“计算机科学与信息技术”。我们讨论了对未来研究、操作和测量电磁干扰增长的理论和方法意义。

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Applied Linguistics LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real-world problems. The journal is keen to help make connections between fields, theories, research methods, and scholarly discourses, and welcomes contributions which critically reflect on current practices in applied linguistic research. It promotes scholarly and scientific discussion of issues that unite or divide scholars in applied linguistics. It is less interested in the ad hoc solution of particular problems and more interested in the handling of problems in a principled way by reference to theoretical studies.