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Direct linkAkif Çal; Tessa Mearns; Wilfried Admiraal – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2025
This study aims to explore to what extent engineering students' perceptions of the role of English in the workplace are affected by their internship and field of study. Previous research revealed that employers value engineers' English communication skills highly. However, mismatches between workplace expectations and engineers' competencies…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Language Role
Download full textSana Touahmia; Farhana Bakar – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2024
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the attitudes of English medium instruction (EMI) lecturers and students and non-EMI lecturers and students toward English in Algeria. The Algerian government plans to implement English as a medium of instruction in higher education. Methods: The research was carried out at an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Government Role
Transnational Technical Communication: English as a Business Lingua Franca in Engineering Workplaces
Hodges, Amy; Seawright, Leslie – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2023
Recent scholarship argues for increased attention to students' linguistic diversity and intercultural communication competence. Our study examined the experiences of 10 working engineers who had graduated from an English-medium international branch campus in the Arabian Gulf. An analysis of their interviews reveals the complex role of English as a…
Descriptors: Engineering, Work Environment, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
Kari Sahan; Özgür Sahan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This study examines the phenomenon of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education through the lens of neoliberalism and linguistic entrepreneurship. Although commonly reported benefits of EMI include improved English proficiency and better job opportunities, there is a lack of research critically examining the relationship between EMI and…
Descriptors: Alumni, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Moncada-Comas, Balbina; Block, David – Language Learning Journal, 2021
In the shift to English-medium instruction (EMI) in European higher education, policy often runs ahead of research and curricular decisions are taken independent of evidence regarding their suitability for achieving broader educational goals, which may range from internationalisation as a general strategy to English language learning as a more…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hillman, Sara; Graham, Keith M.; Eslami, Zohreh R. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Transnational higher education (TNHE), often based on export models of Western-based universities and driven by neoliberal market economy agendas, has spread across the globe. One example of TNHE is Qatar's Education City where six prestigious American international branch campuses (IBCs) all administer their degrees through English medium…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Planning, Language of Instruction, Neoliberalism
Asif, Sadia; Bashir, Rahat; Zafar, Shabana – English Language Teaching, 2018
English as a medium of instruction and communication is becoming a central pedagogy in various countries in the world. In Pakistan, most of the advanced academic institutions use English as their medium of instruction, however students and teachers have been observed communicating in their first languages, especially Urdu, in the classrooms. This…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tatzl, Dietmar – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2011
English-medium instruction has become a common approach to increase the internationalisation opportunities of European universities and the global employability of their graduates. This article presents the results of a questionnaire survey (n = 8 lecturers and 66 students) and lecturer interviews (n = 8) at three established business and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Prior Learning, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
