English Medium Instruction as a Local Practice : : Language, culture and pedagogy / / by Jinghe Han.

• Superior document: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• VerfasserIn: Han, Jinghe.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
• Language: English
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 126 p. 1 illus.)

From the perspective of translanguaging and instruction theories, this Open Access book examines Chinese English Medium Instruction (EMI) lecturers’ linguistic and pedagogical characteristics. This book demonstrate that ‘English’ in EMI is not a monolingual issue and EMI lecturers have applied their bilingual advantages to systematically and strategically advance their pedagogy practices through a translanguaging process. This book reflects upon EMI lecturers’ culture-imbedded teaching and learning philosophies and explores the implications of local classroom practices, such as topic-centered instruction and teacher presentation through demonstration. This book argues that EMI teaching is not an approach that can reach universal consent across linguistic, cultural and educational systems; it is an approach that is exclusively contextualised in the lecturers’ closely related cultural and educational system, and restricted by the available resources. This is an open access book.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: English Medium Instruction: Expanding Notions of English Hegemony and Colonization -- Chapter 2: Conceptualization of English Medium Instruction -- Chapter 3: Pedagogical Position and Instructional Practice in EMI Teaching -- Chapter 4: Chinese EMI Lecturers’ Engagement Strategies -- Chapter 5: Cross-linguistic Influence: Bilingual EMI Lecturers’ English and Chinese Entwined -- Chapter 6: Pragmatic Transfer: Reflecting on the Use of EMI Lecturers’ Pragmatic Markers -- Chapter 7: When Structuralism and Post-structuralism Collide: EMI lecturers’ Monolingual Ideology and Translanguaging Practice -- Chapter 8: The Research on English Medium Instruction and a Proposed Constructivist EMI Teaching Framework.