“…While the nature of these skills and competences is largely contingent on what type of IoHE is implemented (see section 2) and the particular context of the HEI, the principles proposed by Hudzik (2011Hudzik ( , 2015 in his comprehensive internationalization (CI) framework, along with those by Leask (2015, 96-103) on internationalization of the curriculum, provide a valuable departure point for Repositioning English-Medium Instruction in a Broader International Agenda… Alicante Journal of English Studies, Issue 34, 2021, pages 15-38 examination. Furthermore, and given the applied linguistic focus of this paper, recent sociolinguistic and ecolinguistic conceptualizations of present-day HEIs and their resulting multilingual teaching and learning practices are, clearly, of great importance (see for example, Soler and Gallego-Balsà 2019; Dafouz andSmit 2016, 2020;Kuteeva et al 2020), especially as language issues are often invisible (Saarinen and Nikula 2013), to the point that language 'is not in and of itself a constitutive factor of internationalization' (Lauridsen 2017, 28).…”