EMI OXFORD RESEARCH GROUP
​PEOPLE PROFILES

EMI Oxford Research Group Core Members

Prof Heath Rose

EMI Oxford Research Group coordinator 
Professor of Applied Linguistics

​My research interest is in the ‘E’ in EMI, particularly exploring the type of English that is used in EMI, and the language needs of students learning in EMI settings. I am co-author of Introducing Global Englishes (Routledge, 2015), and am currently engaged in a number of projects that explore EMI in Japan. My most recent EMI-related paper appeared in Higher Education (2018).

Dr Ikuya Aizawa

Communications officer
Alumni and Lecturer at University of Nottingham

​My research focuses on English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education in Japan. My research explores the costs and benefits to students quality of education, exploring both language and content acquisition, and the various language-related challenges of studying academic subjects through a second language. ​ 

Prof Ernesto Macaro

Founding director
Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics 

​I was the founding Director of the Centre for Research and Development in English Medium Instruction in the Department of Education, The University of Oxford. My current research focuses on second language learning strategies and on the interaction between teachers and learners in classrooms where English is the Medium of Instruction. I have published  a recent monograph on the topic (Oxford University Press).

Dr Hamish Chalmers

Research Group Member
​Senior Lecturer

My research interest centres on evaluation of pedagogical approaches to teaching children who use English as an Additional Language (EAL). In particular, my research focuses on the use of the first language as a pedagogical tool for multilingual learners in English medium classrooms. My methodological interest is in randomised trials and systematic reviews. My EMI publications include the recent: "Chalmers, H. (2019). The Role of the first language in English Medium Instruction. OUP ELT Position Paper."

Dr Sihan Zhou

Research Group Member
Honorary Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong

My current research focuses on students’ self-regulatory listening strategies during transition period from CMI (Chinese medium instruction) secondary education to EMI higher education in China. Specifically, I am interested in what difficulties related to listening comprehension that students encounter and how their self-regulatory listening strategies change during the transition year in EMI university settings.  

Dr Minhui Wei

Research Group Member
​Postdoctoral Researcher at Tsinghua University

​My project investigates vocabulary gains and vocabulary learning strategies of Chinese EMI students. I wants to discover whether EMI classes can lead to a similar amount of vocabulary gain as general classes, and whether the strategy using pattern in the two contexts are different, as well as how vocabulary learning strategy use can lead to vocabulary gain. 

Dr Robert Woore

Research Group Member
Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics

​I am a member of the Applied Linguistics and Teaching and Teacher Education research groups.  I teach on the PGCE, MSc ALSLA, MLT and doctoral programmes and is lead tutor for Modern Languages on the PGCE course. I am interested in the impact of EMI on the teaching and use of other languages.
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Dr Kari Coffman Sahan

Research Group Member
​ ​Honorary Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Reading

​My current research explores the relationship between language education policy and practices in higher education, looking specifically at the relationship between English medium instruction (EMI) policy in Turkey and the variation with which it is implemented at the institutional and classroom level. My research explores the relationship between the local language and English in EMI settings by examining themes such as classroom interaction, codeswitching, and the use of L1.

Dr Gene Thompson

Research Group Member
Honorary Research Fellow and Professor (Rikkyo University)

​I am the Director of the Bilingual Business Leader (BBL) Program and an Associate Professor of Language and Communication in the College of Business at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. I work  on research with the group specifically on issues surrounding EMI in Japanese higher education, and have been co-investigator on a funded project on EMI challenges. 
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EMI Oxford Research Network Members

EMI Oxford Research Group has no integrated its wider network activities with he EMI strand of ELIPro. https://elipro.net/