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Evolving Agendas in European English-Medium Higher Education

Interculturality, Multilingualism and Language Policy

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  1. Clive W. Earls

    1. National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Clive W. Earls
    Pages 1-10

  3. English in Contemporary German Society and English Medium-of-Instruction Programmes

    • Clive W. Earls
    Pages 11-34

  4. Language Policy and Planning in 21st-Century Europe

    • Clive W. Earls
    Pages 35-59

  5. Internationalisation, Globalisation and English-Medium Higher Education

    • Clive W. Earls
    Pages 60-103

  6. English Medium-of-Instruction Programmes as Platforms of Intercultural Teaching and Learning

    • Clive W. Earls
    Pages 104-145

  7. English Medium-of-Instruction Programmes as a Mechanism of ‘Brain Drain, Gain and Circulation’

    • Clive W. Earls
    Pages 146-162

  8. English Medium-of-Instruction Programmes as a Concomitant Challenge to, and Mechanism of, Implicit German Language Policy

    • Clive W. Earls
    Pages 163-188

  9. English Medium of Instruction at Higher Education: Advancing Understanding of the Phenomenon

    • Clive W. Earls
    Pages 189-202

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 203-244
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland

    Clive W. Earls

About the author

Clive W. Earls is currently Lecturer in German and Linguistics at the School of Modern Languages, Literature and Culture at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. He teaches and publishes primarily on Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Sociolinguistics, Language Policy and Planning and Higher Education Policy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evolving Agendas in European English-Medium Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: Interculturality, Multilingualism and Language Policy

  • Authors: Clive W. Earls

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137543127

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54311-0Published: 06 January 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-56040-0Published: 09 February 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54312-7Published: 26 February 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 244

  • Topics: English, Higher Education, Language Education, Sociolinguistics, Language Policy and Planning, Language Teaching

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