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Meeting on Common Ground? Professors and Students Navigating EMI in Higher Education

Increasingly, countries in non-Anglophone Europe have turned to new language policies and English-medium instruction (EMI) to maintain a competitive edge in the internationalization of higher education. In the Nordic countries, this trend is situated within the broader context of ‘parallel language policy,’ which emphasizes the use of English while aiming for a balance between English and the national language/s (Holmen, 2017). This talk presents exploratory research into EMI in a Nordic university that investigates the views and experiences of professors from a variety of disciplines (Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Maths and Sciences, etc.) teaching graduate courses through the medium of English. Preliminary analyses of (any) connections they feel between challenges they face in a de facto bilingual university and within the broader Academy (publishing, faculty involvement, and gaining tenure), and the challenges their students face functioning academically in an additional language are discussed.

Reference

Holmen, A. (2017). Parallel language strategy. In N. Van Deusen-Scholl & S. May (Eds.), Second and foreign language education (pp. 301-311). Encyclopedia of Language & Education (3rd ed., Vol. 4). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

Suggested article

Holmen, A. (2017). Parallel language strategy. In N. Van Deusen-Scholl & S. May (Eds.), Second and foreign language education (pp. 301-311). Encyclopedia of Language & Education (3rd ed., Vol. 4). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.