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Department of Education Public SeminarsEnglish Medium Instruction Research: What do we know so far and what do we still need to find out?Ernesto Macaro, Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series. The exponential growth of English Medium Instruction (EMI) both in Higher and Secondary Education globally has resulted in a similar growth of empirical research on the subject. Of necessity this research to date has been exploratory, single institution-oriented and lacking a clear research agenda that a more established community of practice might have ensured. In this talk I will present some findings from a systematic review of EMI that we have carried out in the EMI Oxford Centre...2017-11-1457 min
Department of Education Research SeminarsSystematic review of English Medium InstructionErnesto Macaro (with Samantha Seiter, Jiangshan An, Jack Pun, Julie Dearden), Centre for Research and Development in English Medium Instruction, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the EMI Symposium. The exponential growth of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Higher Education (HE) globally has driven a similar growth of empirical research on the subject. Of necessity this research to date has been exploratory, single institution-oriented and lacking a clear research agenda that a more established community of practice could have ensured. Moreover, HE research appears to be almost completely isolated, in its conceptualization, from EMI research in earlier phases of...2017-07-0548 min