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The (in)justice of EMI: a critical discourse analysis of two key stakeholders’ views on the Polytechnic University of Milan court case EMI 的（不）公正：对米兰理工大学法庭案件中两个主要利益相关者观点的批判性话语分析

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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2024-2002

Beatrice Zuaro, Dogan Yuksel, Peter Wingrove, Marion Nao, Anna K. Hultgren

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EMI programmes in Vietnamese higher education: a case study of translanguaging practices for inclusive education 越南高等教育中的 EMI 课程：促进全纳教育的翻译语言实践案例研究

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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2024-2008

Phuong Le Hoang Ngo

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Our gateway is your gatekeeper: benefits and constraints of EMI for different participants in Japanese ELF contexts 我们的网关就是你们的守门人：EMI 对日本 ELF 环境中不同参与者的益处和制约因素

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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2024-2009

Kumiko Murata, Masakazu Iino

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English Medium Instruction or Exploitative Models of Income? International students’ experiences of EMI by default at an Australian university 英语教学还是剥削性收入模式？澳大利亚一所大学的留学生对默认英语教学的体验

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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2024-2011

Carly Steele, Ana Tankosić, Sender Dovchin

{"title":"English Medium Instruction or Exploitative Models of Income? International students’ experiences of EMI by default at an Australian university","authors":"Carly Steele, Ana Tankosić, Sender Dovchin","doi":"10.1515/jelf-2024-2011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2024-2011","url":null,"abstract":"International education is Australia’s largest services export, and third largest export altogether, generating between $22 billion and $40 billion per year over the last few years. Higher education represents half of this ‘market’ with over 25 % of students being from overseas. Despite the important role that international students play in the fabric of Australian society and specifically in higher education, the findings from our linguistic ethnographic study of international students at an Australian university showed that the English language learning needs of these students were frequently unmet. Using James Scott’s theory of official and hidden transcripts, we reveal that students reported feeling that their “English is not good enough” and assumed personal ‘(ir)responsibility’ for this outcome. In this broad English Medium Instruction (EMI) context, where English is not the first language, but it is used as the language of instruction and as the lingua franca amongst international students, English-dominant perspectives acted to marginalise international students, impacting their academic performance and confidence for social networking. In this paper, we describe the shifts in higher educational policy in Australia over the last few decades to provide context to the current neoliberal educational climate for international students. We draw on principles of social justice to examine the present-day system and argue that Australian universities need to shift from an EMI by default model to a genuine EMI offering.","PeriodicalId":44449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English as a Lingua Franca","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141938606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Enhancing equity in South Korean EMI higher education through translanguaging 通过翻译语言加强南韩 EMI 高等教育的公平性

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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2024-2012

Dylan G. Williams

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“English is the natural language of science”: discourses and ideologies concerning EMI in two Brazilian universities "英语是科学的自然语言"：巴西两所大学中有关 EMI 的论述和意识形态

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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2024-2007

Alessia Cogo, Telma Gimenez, Luciana Cabrini Calvo, Michele El Kadri

{"title":"“English is the natural language of science”: discourses and ideologies concerning EMI in two Brazilian universities","authors":"Alessia Cogo, Telma Gimenez, Luciana Cabrini Calvo, Michele El Kadri","doi":"10.1515/jelf-2024-2007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2024-2007","url":null,"abstract":"With the introduction of English medium instruction (EMI) as one strategy for the internationalization of universities, more and more lecturers in Brazil choose the option of running their courses in EMI, while higher education courses are normally taught in Portuguese, the official language. In this study, we aim to explore the discourses and ideologies underlying the introduction and choice of EMI in two Brazilian higher education institutions. We conducted interviews with lecturers and focus group discussions with lecturers and students at two state universities in Paraná, Brazil. The results show a tendency to see English as “the natural language of science” which is underpinned by various ideological positions in relation to the role of English in academia, such as monolingual, correctness and native speakerism ideologies. At the same time, the data shows resistance to English from a linguistic justice perspective, and portrays university lecturers as engaging in a balancing act to facilitate inclusion and still offer international opportunities to students in Brazil.","PeriodicalId":44449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English as a Lingua Franca","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141938611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Linguistic justice in English-medium instruction contexts: a theoretical argument 英语教学环境中的语言公正：理论论证

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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2024-2003

Josep Soler

{"title":"Linguistic justice in English-medium instruction contexts: a theoretical argument","authors":"Josep Soler","doi":"10.1515/jelf-2024-2003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2024-2003","url":null,"abstract":"This article looks at English-medium instruction (EMI) contexts in higher education from a linguistic justice perspective and offers a theoretical argument to discuss the potential for EMI to be defended as a positive and valuable phenomenon, beyond economic and competitive arguments. In the final keynote panel at the 2022 ICLHE conference, Philippe Van Parijs pondered how EMI teachers might be seen: either as killers, traitors, sellers, saviours, upgraders, or liberators. After providing characterisations for each of these labels, Van Parijs suggested that EMI teachers should be better conceived of as civilisers, not in a missionary sense of civilising the barbarian, but in the Aristotelian meaning of civic virtue, of citizens being part of public life, actively involved in discussion of public affairs. This seems to imply a specific view of English, one that almost naturally equates the language to democratic progress and consensus. In the article, I challenge this assumption and suggest that for English to be a democratising agent and EMI truly a gate-opener to higher education, emphasis needs to be placed on listening subject positions and regimes of uptake as key aspects of democratic deliberation and key elements to overcome prejudiced views of accents and voices.","PeriodicalId":44449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English as a Lingua Franca","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141938604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Preparing university students for multilingual EMI contexts in Türkiye 在土耳其培养大学生适应多语言的 EMI 环境

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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2023-2015

Yavuz Kurt, Yasemin Bayyurt

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Revisiting language teacher education in an ELF aware perspective: responses to innovations 从英语语言教学法意识的角度重新审视语文师范教育：对创新的回应

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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2023-2008

Lucilla Lopriore

{"title":"Revisiting language teacher education in an ELF aware perspective: responses to innovations","authors":"Lucilla Lopriore","doi":"10.1515/jelf-2023-2008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2023-2008","url":null,"abstract":"Teachers’ and teacher educators’ individual theories, attitudes and beliefs underlying their daily practice, are often challenged by sociolinguistic changes, curricular innovations, or new language policies that may often trigger teachers’ resistance to change, particularly when they are required to adapt and revisit their teaching practices. In many European countries recent migration flows have modified the countries language landscapes; their school population is now growingly plurilingual and with different learning and language needs. In their out-of-school experiences, learners are more and more exposed to English through social media and to non-native speakers’ English (ELF), aspects not integrated yet in local language policies, nor in teacher education programs. It is thus important to design pre- and in-service teacher education programs aimed at sensitizing language and subject teachers to these new scenarios, using reflective practice approaches in multilingual contexts. These contexts require English language teachers, and teachers who use English in different fields such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) or English Medium of Instruction (EMI), to reconsider their personal assumptions and beliefs, and to develop new competences that would incorporate the powerful reflective framework provided by ELF-awareness. The ELF-aware perspective had been adopted in recent courses for English teachers carried out in Italy, as the ENRICH CPD course, and in the CLIL courses for content teachers. The aim of this contribution is to present and discuss findings of two research studies carried out within the above-mentioned courses that were meant to make teachers aware of new instantiations of English through a reflective practice approach such as the ELF-aware approach, and to sustain their professional development as well as their agency. This paper is mostly related to the lessons learnt from the findings from teachers’ responses to course innovations and their agency development during these courses.","PeriodicalId":44449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English as a Lingua Franca","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139460563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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English as the Academic Lingua Franca (ELFA) for research publication purposes: voices from Iraq and Turkey 为研究出版目的将英语作为学术语言（ELFA）：来自伊拉克和土耳其的声音

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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2023-2014

Sami Alhasnawi, Hacer Hande Uysal, Batuhan Selvi

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