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English as a Medium of Instruction: challenges and solutions Trevor Grimshaw calls for a fully-developed approach If you are reading this article you will almost certainly know that English is the pre-eminent language of instruction around the globe. English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) is found at all levels of education, from pre-school to postgraduate studies. A vast range of academic subjects are nowadays taught through the medium of English, including science, mathematics, technology, humanities, world history, business studies, physical education and the arts. The number of international and bilingual schools that deliver curricula through the English language is expanding Winter
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at a phenomenal rate. Research suggests that by the year 2022 there may be as many as 11,000 English-medium international schools, employing half a million Englishspeaking teachers worldwide (Bunnell, 2016). Many parents see an English-medium primary and secondary education as the best way of preparing their children for higher education in the core English-speaking countries (the USA, the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand). As educational institutions all over the world seek to internationalise, the trend towards English-medium education is ever stronger in the ASEAN countries, India, China, the Gulf
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