Content instructors’ views on English and collaboration in EMI: A discipline-based analysis

Yuksel, Dogan and Altay, Mehmet (2024). Content instructors’ views on English and collaboration in EMI: A discipline-based analysis. In: Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye and Mahalingappa, Laura eds. Contemporary Perspectives on English as a Medium of Instruction. Contemporary Perspectives on Learning Environments. Information Age Publishing, pp. 1–20.

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Abstract

Motivated by the need for a deeper exploration of the place of English in EMI, this chapter examines (a) how non-language EMI faculty perceive the place of English in EMI and (b) what they think about content and language specialists’ collaboration. The participants were 18 content specialists from the engineering discipline and 18 others from social sciences in a Turkish EMI setting. In a semi-structured interview format, views of the content instructors in two disciplines were explored and reported. We have followed with a qualitative content analysis method for the analysis of our interviews. Our findings revealed that EMI instructors in social sciences had more positive attitudes towards both the place of English in the classroom and collaboration with the language specialists. On the other hand, engineering instructors did not think too highly of the significance of English and, at the same time, were not too enthusiastic about the content instructor and language specialist collaboration.