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Chapter 7 - Supporting English Medium Instruction at German Institutions of Higher Education

from II - The Transmission of English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2019

By
Susanne Göpferich ,
Ina Alexandra Machura  and
Janine T. Murphy
Edited by
Raymond Hickey
Raymond Hickey
Affiliation:
Universität Duisburg–Essen
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Summary

In the wake of the Bologna Declaration, the number of courses and programmes taught in English has been increasing continuously across European institutions of higher education (HEIs). Courses taught in the paradigm of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) or English as ‘the language of learning and teaching’ (LoLT; van der Walt and Klapwijk 2015) have begun to replace programmes taught in the national language(s) (cf. Björkmann 2013). The number of programmes taught entirely in English has increased by more than a factor of ten in Europe since 2001 and amounted to over 8,000 by 2014 (Wächter and Maiworm 2014: 36).

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English in the German-Speaking World , pp. 114 - 140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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