Finding their feet: lecturers’ and students’ perceptions of English as a medium of instruction in a recently-implemented Master's programme at an Italian university

Rowland, Leonie; Murray, Neil

doi:10.1080/01434632.2019.1614186

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“…However, this expectation does not meet with the fact that lacking of vocabularies is one of the big problems for the students in this program. Another finding of the study shows that students were not fully confident in their ability to understand the knowledge concept or content related the subject due to their limitation of vocabularies (Rowland & Murray, 2019). This verifies the finding of this study that limited knowledge and practice of daily vocabularies affect the students' English skill.…”

Section: Students' Difficultiessupporting

confidence: 80%

“…Although, in some different contexts, students prefer L1 as medium of instruction (Haryanto, 2012;Dafouz, Camacho, & Urquia, 2014;Floris, 2014;Kim & Yoon, 2018;Rowland & Murray, 2019), EMI is still perceived beneficial beyond the English-language-related gains (Sultan et al, 2012;Zacharias, 2013;Rahmadani, 2016;Kong & Wei, 2019). In the context of this study, three main aspects of the language that, according to the students, have improved during their two years of study.…”

Section: Students' English Language Achievementmentioning

confidence: 68%

“…Baa (2018) found that even though the lecturers have limited English proficiency, lack of sufficient of bilingual materials and English environment at the campus, they are still motivated to explore more challenge materials and activities for teaching (Sultan et al, 2012), and thus the students also have benefitted in terms of confidence and fluency in English. Furthermore, EMI was generally perceived to be satisfactory to the students (Sultan et al, 2012;Zacharias, 2013;Rahmadani, 2016) although they prefer the use of Bahasa Indonesia to that of English to understand and learn the subject (Haryanto, 2012;Rowland & Murray, 2019). The preference of local language use is in accordance with Floris (2014) who found that EMI teaching put the majority of the students into the burden when they need to respond in English.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 70%

“…Perceptions of EMI are evident in studies conducted in different global context. In Italia, for example, Rowland & Murray (2019) found that both students and lecturers felt positive about the experience of EMI. In addition to this context, flexible attitude is used to encourage the students to be more comfortable with EMI and less anxious, and embrace opportunities to practice their English.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This EMI preference deals with Kim et al (2009) who stated that the majority of students at Yonsei University in Korea preferred to have EMI classes only in English to improve their English at their first two year of college. Contrarily, Haryanto (2012), Kim and Yoon (2018), and Rowland and Murray (2019) in their findings related to the EMI use claim that students were favorably disposed to the use of local language in lecturers, especially in the case of difficult subjects or concepts. Supporting this, Floris (2014) added that EMI teaching put the majority of the students into the burden when they need to respond in English.…”

Section: Students' Reason and Expectation Choosing Icpmentioning

confidence: 99%

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English as Medium of Instruction at Physics International Class Program: A Study of Students’ Perception

Syakira

2020

ITJ

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The specific focus of this paper is to uncover the students' perception on English language use as the medium of instruction (EMI) in the teaching and learning at Physics International Class Program (ICP), State University of Makassar. The paper describes the students' reason and expectation choosing ICP rather than regular one, their difficulties, as well as their language achievement. The data was collected using semi-structured interview to nine of third-year physical students in the program. The interviews were conducted in the language that the participant felt comfortable using (Indonesian) and recorded about seven to nine minutes each students. The analysis follows the qualitative content analysis described by Miles and Huberman, (1994): that is, themes were coded and categorized into the needs of the research, and patterns in the themes were identified and during this process, interpretations of these arrangements were made. The result of this study indicates that EMI in ICP helps some students to improve their English especially in writing, reading and vocabularies although some others are still experiencing difficulties in the teaching and learning process. Therefore, program development is still necessarily required in ICP in order to maintain its quality. Furthermore, the result of this study is expected to be a consideration for the continuity program in the future for a better service of its all aspects and to be a positive contribution for the next researcher who wants to conduct deeper research related to this topic.

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Section: Students' Difficultiessupporting

confidence: 80%