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For EMI and EAP to be tenable, one issue is whether there has been enough depth of thought into the matter of having Japanese mother-tongue students study for degree courses conducted in English. Along with this question, Chap. 7 examines related matters like whether EMI and EAP are merely knee-jerk reactions to the need to increase enrolments to shore up university finances, whether EMI and EAP in Japan in fact contribute to student knowledge acquisition and personal growth as people or whether they are part of the cosmetics of poorly conceived attempts at internationalization. By examining real-life instances of the way both English and EAP are trivialized, misunderstood or misappropriated, serious doubts are raised as to whether EMI and EAP are tenable, institutionally speaking.
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Toh, G. (2016). English in Japan: Convergence in Mythologies and Chimeras. In: English as Medium of Instruction in Japanese Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39705-4_8
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