The Role of Internationalization and English as a Lingua Franca in English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education

Ament, Jennifer

doi:10.28914/atlantis-2021-43.2.12

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“…These expectations are in line with the increasingly demanding requirements of global communication skills for the labor force, which keeps the focus on a necessary shift in the educational focus in higher education [9]. In this regard, EMI-based learning is expected to increase employability, as well as to improve cross-cultural understanding and global awareness [33,34].…”

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Agricultural Engineering Students’ Segmentation in Relation to Their Attitudes towards English-Medium Instruction

et al. 2023

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The School of Agricultural Engineering has been involved in English-medium instruction (EMI) within the framework of the internationalization strategy of the University of Extremadura (Spain). Several years after these actions were initiated, it has become necessary to analyze them, with the main objective of researching the attitude of the students towards it, keeping the focus on finding common trends. With this aim, a segmentation of the students was carried out based on a questionnaire that included aspects related to their attitudes towards English-medium instruction, their socio-demographic characteristics and the program they were enrolled in. A total of 251 students were surveyed, and the data were analyzed by performing a multiple correspondence analysis and a cluster analysis. They revealed three typologies of students with clearly different underlying features, especially related to the program and year in which they were enrolled, their age and English level, and their perceived skills. The main conclusion is that the multivariate techniques applied are useful tools to identify groups of students with different features in the EMI frame, which may facilitate the launch of specific actions focused on the needs and expectations of each group to ensure that EMI programs and students achieve their goals.

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Agricultural Engineering Students’ Segmentation in Relation to Their Attitudes towards English-Medium Instruction

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“…On the other hand, teachers' command of English allows attracting foreign students to a higher educational institution. This fact, in turn, affects the ranking and income of the university [1], which can change its status to the national university. In Ukraine, students must take the English exam to be enrolled for master's and postgraduate studies.…”

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The Quantitative Analysis of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for Learning English

Sharova,

Filatova,

Kavun

et al. 2023

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English is an international language for intercultural communication on the Internet, in the field of business and trade. MOOC are an effective means of the formation of English language skills in the conditions of distance learning and blended learning. The purpose of THE research is a quantitative analysis of the online courses for learning English, which are presented on the international (Udemy, Alison, FutureLearn, edX) and Ukrainian (Prometheus and EdEra) online platforms. During the research, we used quantitative research methods, which involved direct observation of the number of online courses on popular MOOC platforms as of January 2023. The similar criteria for comparing MOOC were the number of online courses, level of training, cost, and type of the course completion document. The analyzed online platforms contain 1675 courses on learning English. On the analyzed MOOC 1350 online courses (80.5%) are payable. Users can enroll on the courses of such levels as Beginner (699 courses, 41.7%), Intermediate (336 courses, 20.1%), Advanced (66 courses, 3.9%), and the courses without a specified level of training (574 courses, 34.3%). It was found that online courses provide additional options like Subtitles, Quizzes, Practice Tests, and Video Transcript, which help to learn English better. In the future, it is planned to study the influence of some elements of online courses on the quality of students’ training and their educational motivation during blended learning.

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The Role of Internationalization and English as a Lingua Franca in English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education

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Agricultural Engineering Students’ Segmentation in Relation to Their Attitudes towards English-Medium Instruction

Agricultural Engineering Students’ Segmentation in Relation to Their Attitudes towards English-Medium Instruction

The Quantitative Analysis of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for Learning English

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