English-Medium Instruction at Universities

Aintzane Doiz, David Lasagabaster and Juan Manuel Sierra are associate professors at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain. Their research interests include, among others, internationalisation in higher education, second/third language acquisition, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), language teaching methodology, attitudes and motivation, and multilingualism at pre-university and university levels. They have published widely in international journals, books and edited books.

Jim Coleman: Foreword



Aintzane Doiz, David Lasagabaster and Juan Manuel Sierra: Introduction



Part 1: The Development of English-medium Instruction



1. Robert Wilkinson: English-medium Instruction at a Dutch University: Challenges and Pitfalls



Part 2: Language Demands of English-medium Instruction on the Stakeholders



2. Christa van der Walt and Martin Kidd: Acknowledging Academic Biliteracy in Higher Education Assessment Strategies: A Tale of Two Trials



3. Phillip Ball and Diana Lindsay: Language Demands and Support for English-medium Instruction in Tertiary Education. Learning from a Specific Context



Part 3: Fostering Trilingual Education at Higher Education Institutions



4. David C.S. Li: Linguistic Hegemony or Linguistic Capital? Internationalization and English-medium Instruction at the Chinese University of Hong Kong



5. Aintzane Doiz, David Lasagabaster and Juan Manuel Sierra: English as L3 at a Bilingual University in the Basque Country, Spain



6. Josep Maria Cots : Introducing English-medium Instruction at the University of Lleida (Spain): Intervention, Beliefs and Practices



Part 4: Institutional Policies at Higher Education Institutions



7. Taina Saarinen and Tarja Nikula: Implicit Policy, Invisible Language: Policies and Practices of International Degree Programmes in Finnish Higher Education



8. Ofra Inbar-Lourie and Smadar Donitsa-Schmidt: Englishization in an Israeli Teacher Education College: Taking the First Steps



9. Ofelia Garcia, Mercé Pujol-Ferrán and Pooja Reddy: Educating International and Immigrant Students in US Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges



10. Elana Shohamy: A Critical Perspective on the Use of English as a Medium of Instruction at Universities



Part 5: Final Considerations



11. Aintzane Doiz, David Lasagabaster and Juan Manuel Sierra: Future Challenges for English-medium Instruction at Tertiary Level