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EMI in Higher Education: Initiatives, Practices and Concerns

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This chapter pans out to EMI as it is appropriated and practiced in the wider world, including institutions in Europe and the Asia-Pacific before devoting a section each on post-war developments and recent issues relevant to the treatment and positioning of English and ELT in Japanese higher education. Matters concerning the changing and plural nature of the English language and the ways such changes affect conceptualizations and exigent outworkings of EMI in local(ized) situations are considered vis-à-vis the cultural politics of the spread of English. This historical critique is followed by an examination of EMI as it is understood and appropriated within Japanese institutions through an appraisal of institutional websites and promotional material. It will be seen that understandings of EMI differ greatly among the various institutions in question.

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Toh, G. (2016). EMI in Higher Education: Initiatives, Practices and Concerns. In: English as Medium of Instruction in Japanese Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39705-4_7

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