Challenges in implementing English-medium instruction: Perspectives of Humanities and Social Sciences professors teaching engineering students

Kim, Jeong-Yeon; Kim, Eun Gyong; Kweon, Soo-Ok

doi:10.1016/j.esp.2018.03.005

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“…The reported use of translation observed in the AU program is consistent with the findings reported in the study by Tan and Lan (2011) who showed the effectiveness of using translation (Bahasa Malaysia) to teach Malay students in English-medium mathematics and science classes in Malaysia. It lends support to the argument that the use of EFL students' first language facilitates the understanding of discipline specific content instructed in English (Kim, Kim, & Kweon, 2018;van de Walt, 2013) although it inevitably increases the reading time.…”

Section: Language-related Learning Difficulties Of Efl International Studentssupporting

confidence: 55%

Quantifying the impact of language on the performance of international accounting students: A cognitive load theory perspective

Yang

Farley

2019

English for Specific Purposes

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This study offers timely empirical evidence of the magnitude of the language effect on the performance of different language user groups, namely English as a Foreign Language (EFL), English as a Second Language (ESL), and English as a Native Language (ENL) in an accounting program instructed in English, an area that has been under researched. Informed by Cognitive Load Theory (CLT), this study develops an innovative research methodology (crossover repeated measures design), drawing on a large data analysis (n=2912) of students' academic results in six accounting specialisation subjects between 2007 and 2014 in an Australian university's undergraduate accounting program. Results show that while all language user groups perform worse in more conceptually (MC) oriented subjects compared to less conceptually (LC) oriented subjects, the relative performance between MC and LC is strongly related to English language user groups. For the first time the magnitude of the impact is derived. The study has implications for the instructional design of accounting programs in English-speaking universities and their offshore programs in non-English speaking countries.

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Section: Language-related Learning Difficulties Of Efl International Studentssupporting

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Quantifying the impact of language on the performance of international accounting students: A cognitive load theory perspective

Yang

Farley

2019

English for Specific Purposes

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“…As Kim et al (2018) describes it, these are the difficulties teachers face when dealing with technical vocabulary related to academic areas alien to their lifelong fields of study. While specialized in foreign language teaching and general English teaching methodologies, ESP teachers need an academic knowledge of the terminology, the concepts and the processes related to the field they are teaching ESP for (Coxhead 2018, Woodrow 2017.…”

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Challenges in Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Estonian Universities

Meristo

Arias

2021

ESPEAP

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Due to the growing importance of globalization, the English language has acquired an even more influential role, and at the tertiary educational level it has provoked the necessity of teaching not just general English, but also English for Specific Purposes (ESP), which meets the demands of students' field of study. Moreover, the preparation of undergraduate students for both entering the labour market or continuing their academic path has prioritized the significance of ESP. This paper aims to investigate how ESP teachers working in Estonian state-funded HEI with General English teaching background perceive their work in the field of ESP. Specifically, this abductive qualitative research seeks to obtain a deeper insight into the challenges posed by teaching ESP and to detect problematic issues to better support university teachers to improve their work. The results highlight three major challenges: coping with changes through the lenses of professionalism; insufficient collaboration, and instability in conducting ESP courses.

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“…It was considered effective, on the one hand, in creating a second language environment in foreign language societies, while culpable, on the other hand, in engendering global competitiveness and increasing the population of international members (E. G. Kim, Kweon, & J. Kim, 2017). Despite its shortcomings, the significance of EMI in the globalized educational market can hardly been denied (E. G. Kim et al, 2017;J. Kim et al, 2018).…”

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“…Given that these contextually bound factors have posed substantial challenges and created major controversy in Korean HE institutions (e.g., J. Kim, 2011;J. Kim, E. G. Kim, & Kweon, 2018;Nam, 2011), this study explores the ways in which context-dependent factors (English-medium instruction, online learning, and a native English-speaking instructor) relate to the uses of motivational regulation strategies of Korean EFL writers situated in the new full-fledged online learning environment.…”

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Motivational Regulation for Learning English Writing Through Zoom in an English-Medium Instruction Context

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Kim²

2021

10.15858/engtea

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Challenges in implementing English-medium instruction: Perspectives of Humanities and Social Sciences professors teaching engineering students

Cited by 52 publications

References 45 publications

Quantifying the impact of language on the performance of international accounting students: A cognitive load theory perspective

Quantifying the impact of language on the performance of international accounting students: A cognitive load theory perspective

Challenges in Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Estonian Universities

Motivational Regulation for Learning English Writing Through Zoom in an English-Medium Instruction Context

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