English-Medium Instruction at Universities

Aintzane Doiz, David Lasagabaster and Juan Manuel Sierra are associate professors at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain. Their research interests include, among others, internationalisation in higher education, second/third language acquisition, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), language teaching methodology, attitudes and motivation, and multilingualism at pre-university and university levels. They have published widely in international journals, books and edited books.

As universities throughout the world strive to internationalize, many are introducing English as a medium of instruction. Does this mean the end of other languages as languages of education and scholarship? Or can English co-exist with other languages in higher education? The chapters in this valuable and highly informative collection examine these and related questions against a range of specific contexts. This should be required reading for all involved in the internationalization of higher education.

• Jim Coleman: ForewordAintzane Doiz, David Lasagabaster and Juan Manuel Sierra: IntroductionPart 1: The Development of English-medium Instruction1. Robert Wilkinson: English-medium Instruction at a Dutch University: Challenges and PitfallsPart 2: Language Demands of English-medium Instruction on the Stakeholders2. Christa van der Walt and Martin Kidd: Acknowledging Academic Biliteracy in Higher Education Assessment Strategies: A Tale of Two Trials3. Phillip Ball and Diana Lindsay: Language Demands and Support for English-medium Instruction in Tertiary Education. Learning from a Specific ContextPart 3: Fostering Trilingual Education at Higher Education Institutions4. David C.S. Li: Linguistic Hegemony or Linguistic Capital? Internationalization and English-medium Instruction at the Chinese University of Hong Kong5. Aintzane Doiz, David Lasagabaster and Juan Manuel Sierra: English as L3 at a Bilingual University in the Basque Country, Spain6. Josep Maria Cots : Introducing English-medium Instruction at the University of Lleida (Spain): Intervention, Beliefs and PracticesPart 4: Institutional Policies at Higher Education Institutions7. Taina Saarinen and Tarja Nikula: Implicit Policy, Invisible Language: Policies and Practices of International Degree Programmes in Finnish Higher Education8. Ofra Inbar-Lourie and Smadar Donitsa-Schmidt: Englishization in an Israeli Teacher Education College: Taking the First Steps9. Ofelia Garcia, Mercé Pujol-Ferrán and Pooja Reddy: Educating International and Immigrant Students in US Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges10. Elana Shohamy: A Critical Perspective on the Use of English as a Medium of Instruction at UniversitiesPart 5: Final Considerations11. Aintzane Doiz, David Lasagabaster and Juan Manuel Sierra: Future Challenges for English-medium Instruction at Tertiary Level