In 11 articles originally published in the February 2013 Current Issues in Language Planning (vol. 14 num. 1), specialists in teaching English as a second or foreign language explore measures in several Asian countries to increase their English-speaking capacity by using English as the medium for teaching other subjects. Their topics include the Japanese way of internationalizing education for both domestic and overseas students, an example from Vietnam of the impacts of globalization on English-as-a-foreign-language teacher education through English as a medium of instruction, English-medium instruction policy at the tertiary level in Malaysia, a critical ethnography of a multi-lingual school in Nepal, and voices of teachers and students in a private university in Bangladesh. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This volume investigates the policy and practice of medium of instruction at different levels of education in Asian polities including Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Maldives, Nepal, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. The chapters provide an informed understanding of the context, process, actors, goals and outcomes of medium of instruction policies from a language policy and planning perspective. The volume has an emphasis on the exploration of medium of instruction in action which brings into focus the perspectives of micro policy enactors including teachers, students, and parents in the local context, generating crucial empirical insights. This critical analysis of the goals, outcomes and experiences of this trend in global language-in-education will be of interest to language and education students, researchers, practicing teachers, executives in academia and language studies and to education policymaking authorities in Asia and other parts of the world. The volume updates existing research on medium of instruction and takes the field forward in a fast-changing world as English medium instruction policies are globalised.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Current Issues in Language Planning.
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