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English Medium Instruction: What do we know so far and what do we still need to find out?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2022

Ernesto Macaro
Ernesto Macaro*
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University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Email: Ernesto.macaro@education.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

English Medium Instruction (EMI), as a phenomenon occurring in the non-Anglophone world, has been matched by a growth in research output on the topic and is now an important and established field of study. A great deal of research attention has been devoted to attitudes held by the key stakeholders in this form of education: teachers, students, and policy makers. Yet, there are many other important questions that remain unanswered, the most important of which are: What are the outcomes of this form of instruction? What is the social and economic impact of EMI? How can EMI teachers improve their teaching? And how can learners help themselves to improve their learning?

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Language Teaching , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , October 2022 , pp. 533 - 546
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Keynote presentation given (remotely) at the Second International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning held at the Education University of Hong Kong on Saturday 19 June 2021.

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