Challenges in implementing English-medium instruction: Perspectives of Humanities and Social Sciences professors teaching engineering students
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- Title
- Challenges in implementing English-medium instruction: Perspectives of Humanities and Social Sciences professors teaching engineering students
- Authors
- Kim, Jeongyeon; Kim, Eun Gyong; KWEON, SOO-OK
- Date Issued
- 2018-07
- Publisher
- Pergamon Press Ltd.
- Abstract
- Science and Engineering universities have been at the forefront of a recent drive to
cultivate the global competitiveness of Korean higher education through English-medium
instruction (EMI). This study investigates how professors teaching Humanities and Social
Sciences (HSS) in this local context envision an EMI policy and the roles of the local language
by means of questionnaires and interviews. Furthermore, this study identifies the
types of support needed for improving EMI in a non-English context. The quantitative data
were collected from more than 80 percent of the HSS faculty members of three major
Science and Engineering universities in Korea, followed by subsequent qualitative interviews
with nine of the respondents. The results show that while generally supporting
the internationalization of higher education, the participants perceived their lack of autonomy
from selection to implementation of the policy as a serious problem. Interestingly,
the local language was perceived as crucial to practicing the HSS disciplines and to conducting
their professional roles. These findings illuminate contingencies of an EMI policy
bound by a local context which include a shared understanding of the influences of an
instructional language on teaching HSS subjects.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/51036
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.esp.2018.03.005
- ISSN
- 0889-4906
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- English for Specific Purposes, vol. 51, page. 111 - 123, 2018-07
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