Chapter 5 English-Medium Instruction in Emirati Higher Education
This chapter begins by providing an overview of the many educational reforms which have taken place in the United Arab Emirates within its short history as a nation. Pushed forward by neoliberalism and globalisation, such reforms have largely focused on increasing amounts of English-medium instructi...
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| description | This chapter begins by providing an overview of the many educational reforms which have taken place in the United Arab Emirates within its short history as a nation. Pushed forward by neoliberalism and globalisation, such reforms have largely focused on increasing amounts of English-medium instruction at all levels of education. In the United Arab Emirates, not only does English dominate teaching and learning, but its ‘de facto lingua franca’ status in public domains has led to heated debates centred around the effects of ‘Englishisation’ on the Arabic language, as well as its impact on local cultural identities. The chapter discusses the concept of agency with reference to student and teacher roles in English-medium instruction settings. Specifically, the sociolinguistic implications of English-medium instruction for Arabic-speaking university students are explored. It is argued that often structural constraints such as ‘English only’ classroom policies reinforce monolingual ideologies, with English also acting as a gatekeeper to academic success, so that naturally occurring translingual practice is deprecated. Referencing previous research, the chapter will conclude by advocating the need for increased choice and agency surrounding English-medium instruction in order for educational experiences to be empowering rather than subtractive. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-979752025-07-17T12:15:59Z Chapter 5 English-Medium Instruction in Emirati Higher Education Hopkyns, Sarah EMI, bilingual education, translanguaging, multilingualism, academic literacies, Arab Gulf states thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning This chapter begins by providing an overview of the many educational reforms which have taken place in the United Arab Emirates within its short history as a nation. Pushed forward by neoliberalism and globalisation, such reforms have largely focused on increasing amounts of English-medium instruction at all levels of education. In the United Arab Emirates, not only does English dominate teaching and learning, but its ‘de facto lingua franca’ status in public domains has led to heated debates centred around the effects of ‘Englishisation’ on the Arabic language, as well as its impact on local cultural identities. The chapter discusses the concept of agency with reference to student and teacher roles in English-medium instruction settings. Specifically, the sociolinguistic implications of English-medium instruction for Arabic-speaking university students are explored. It is argued that often structural constraints such as ‘English only’ classroom policies reinforce monolingual ideologies, with English also acting as a gatekeeper to academic success, so that naturally occurring translingual practice is deprecated. Referencing previous research, the chapter will conclude by advocating the need for increased choice and agency surrounding English-medium instruction in order for educational experiences to be empowering rather than subtractive. 2023-03-07T04:02:22Z 2023-03-07T04:02:22Z 2023-03-06T14:18:41Z 2023 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61618 9781032024936 9781032024943 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/97975 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61618/1/9781003183594_10.4324_9781003183594-6.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61618/1/9781003183594_10.4324_9781003183594-6.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61618/1/9781003183594_10.4324_9781003183594-6.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003183594-6 10.4324/9781003183594-6 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 English as a Medium of Instruction on the Arabian Peninsula Zayed University 31f63df8-00d8-42e1-a5e6-55859afdf6a2 9781032024936 9781032024943 Routledge 17 open access |
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