TY - JOUR
T1 - EMI and the international branch campus
T2 - Examining language ideologies, policies, and practices
AU - Hillman, Sara
AU - Graham, Keith M.
AU - Eslami, Zohreh R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 John Benjamins Publishing Company.
PY - 2021/7/7
Y1 - 2021/7/7
N2 - Transnational higher education (TNHE), often based on export models of Western-based universities and driven by neoliberal market economy agendas, has spread across the globe. One example of TNHE is Qatar's Education City where six prestigious American international branch campuses (IBCs) all administer their degrees through English medium instruction (EMI). While there is a burgeoning amount of research investigating and problematizing issues in EMI higher education institutions, IBCs are a unique EMI setting due to their heavy reliance on importing faculty, staff, curricula and practices from their home campuses. Thus, this study takes an ethnographic case study approach to examine the language planning and policy and linguistic landscape at one IBC in Qatar. Drawing on multiple sources of data, the study reveals both the overt and covert language policies and ideologies of the institution and its various stakeholders, and the extent to which languages other than English are used and accepted.
AB - Transnational higher education (TNHE), often based on export models of Western-based universities and driven by neoliberal market economy agendas, has spread across the globe. One example of TNHE is Qatar's Education City where six prestigious American international branch campuses (IBCs) all administer their degrees through English medium instruction (EMI). While there is a burgeoning amount of research investigating and problematizing issues in EMI higher education institutions, IBCs are a unique EMI setting due to their heavy reliance on importing faculty, staff, curricula and practices from their home campuses. Thus, this study takes an ethnographic case study approach to examine the language planning and policy and linguistic landscape at one IBC in Qatar. Drawing on multiple sources of data, the study reveals both the overt and covert language policies and ideologies of the institution and its various stakeholders, and the extent to which languages other than English are used and accepted.
KW - EMI
KW - Ethnography of language planning and policy
KW - Qatar
KW - Translanguaging
KW - Transnational higher education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85110256346&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1075/aral.20093.hil
DO - 10.1075/aral.20093.hil
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85110256346
SN - 0155-0640
VL - 44
SP - 229
EP - 252
JO - Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
JF - Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
IS - 2
ER -