The Language(s) of HE: EMI and/or ELF and/or Multilingualism?

Authors

  • Andy Kirkpatrick Griffith University

Keywords:

English medium instruction, higher education, English as a lingua franca, multilingual language education, Asia-Pacific

Abstract

There has been a striking increase in the number of universities in the Asia-Pacific region that are moving to offer courses and programmes through English. In this article I shall consider the possible consequences of this increase in EMI for staff and students for whom English is not a first language and for university language education policy. In so doing, I raise some issues of concern connected with the notion of the E in EMI and English-only policies. I shall argue that those universities which have adopted EMI programmes need to consider revising their policies to (i) take into account the use of English as a lingua franca and (ii) to encourage bi- and multilingualism within the university.

Author Biography

  • Andy Kirkpatrick, Griffith University

    Professor Andy Kirkpatrick is in the School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University, Australia. His areas of research expertise are in: the development of new varieties of English and the role of English as a lingua franca in Asia; Language Education Policy in Asia (in multilingual settings); Chinese-English contrastive discourse analysis and rhetoric; and the internationalization of education. He has published widely in all these fields.

The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Volume 1. Issue 1. March 2014

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2014-03-28

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014)

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The Language(s) of HE: EMI and/or ELF and/or Multilingualism?. (2014). The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1(1), 4-15. https://caes.hku.hk/ajal/index.php/ajal/article/view/23