Meeting the challenges of English-medium higher education: The first-year experience in Hong Kong

Challenges in English Medium of Instruction from the Teachers and Students' Eyes

“…The language-related challenges in EMI at a Hong Kong University were also investigated in a longitudinal study carried by Evans and Morrison (2011). 3 000 students completed a questionnaire in which the challenges were detailed as skills ''planning written assignments'', ''following a discussion'', ''using appropriate academic style'', ''expressing ideas in correct English'', ''understanding specialist vocabulary'', ''understanding key vocabulary'' ''taking brief, clear notes'' in an EMI classroom.…”

“…For this reason, Andrade (2009) supported that the challenges are undoubtedly stemmed from the learners' limited competence and confidence in English (cited in Evans & Morrison, 2011). Therefore, these perspectives need to be investigated in future research studies in order to illuminate the effectiveness of EMI and possible reasons for its failure.…”

The EAP competencies in a group case study project as revealed by a task analysis

“…Similar developments have been noted elsewhere (e.g. Ashraf, 2004;Chapman et al, 2006;Hansen, 2006;Victoria University of Wellington, 2004;Evans and Morrison, 2011). EAP practitioners need to consider whether they are adequately preparing and supporting international students to perform effectively within group projects in their academic departments and on into their future employment.…”

Language and Content in Higher Education

“…Numerous pedagogical approaches and methodologies have sought to address both language and content in higher educational settings, including Content-Based Instruction (CBI) (Costa & Coleman, 2010;McDougald, 2007a), English-Mediated Instruction (EMI) (Corrales, Paba Rey, Lourdes, & Escamilla, 2016;Toh, 2016), English for Academic Purposes (EAP) (Evans & Morrison, 2011;Tatzl, 2011), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) (Carloni, 2013a;Chostelidou & Griva, 2014; …”