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Challenges to English-medium instruction (EMI) for international students in China: A learners' perspective

English-medium education aims to accommodate international students into Chinese universities, but how well is it working?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

Ji-Jun He  and
Shiao-Yun Chiang
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According to the Institute of International Education, China has become a major receiving country of international students, like the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. The rapid development of international education in China evidences a major progress in the infrastructure of Chinese higher education. While internationalization creates unprecedented opportunities for the knowledge economy in China, it simultaneously poses unparalleled challenges for Chinese higher education (An & Chiang, 2015) and one of these challenges is the medium of instruction (MOI). While English has been widely taught in China since 1978 (McArthur, 2005), it was not until the turn of the century that English was endorsed as the medium of instruction for the so-called Chinese-English bilingual education.

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English Today , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , December 2016 , pp. 63 - 67
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