The Practice of English as a Medium of Instruction around the World

This edited volume presents 11 papers reporting the existing literature and the results of original studies focusing on EMI (English as a medium of instruction) in a particular area (central and eastern Europe, western and southern Europe, The Nordic and Baltic states, central Asia, the Middle East, east Asia, southeast Asia, north Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, the Asian sub-continent, and Latin America). Each of these different areas tends to have its own ways of dealing with the EMI issue, and these are brought together in a meta-analysis in the final chapter. Implications for the conduct of English as a medium of instruction are drawn, both on a chapter-by-chapter basis and also in the meta-analysis. The examination of EMI on a contextual basis is a unique feature of this book, setting it apart from others in the field, which almost all deal with a single or limited context.