Ongoing and previous funded projects within the EMI Oxford Research Group
Project: Global Scoping of EMI in Lower- and Middle-income Countries [ONGOING]
PI: Heath Rose
CIs: S Sahan, E Macaro, M Searle, A Mikolajewska, I Aizawa, S Zhou, A Veitch
Funder: British Council
Description: This project explores EMI at Japanese universities. It investigates the relationship between language proficiency and educational challenges associated with EMI. It also explores vocabulary range of EMI students compared to that observed in EMI lectures and course materials.
PI: Heath Rose
CIs: S Sahan, E Macaro, M Searle, A Mikolajewska, I Aizawa, S Zhou, A Veitch
Funder: British Council
Description: This project explores EMI at Japanese universities. It investigates the relationship between language proficiency and educational challenges associated with EMI. It also explores vocabulary range of EMI students compared to that observed in EMI lectures and course materials.
Project: EMI in China [CONCLUDED]
PI: Heath Rose
CIs: J McKinley, X Xu, S Zhou
Funder: British Council China
Description: This project explored EMI at Chinese universities. It investigated policy and practices across a range of universities in China.
PI: Heath Rose
CIs: J McKinley, X Xu, S Zhou
Funder: British Council China
Description: This project explored EMI at Chinese universities. It investigated policy and practices across a range of universities in China.
Project: English-Medium Instruction and Youth Employment in Multilingual India [CONCLUDED]
PI: Jessica Briggs
CIs: E Murphy
Funder: EMI Oxford
Description: This project explores existing data in India to look at the effect of educational background on success in EMI.
PI: Jessica Briggs
CIs: E Murphy
Funder: EMI Oxford
Description: This project explores existing data in India to look at the effect of educational background on success in EMI.
Project: Transition from Secondary Education CLIL Programmes to Tertiary Education [CONCLUDED]
PI: Ernesto Macaro
CIs: J Briggs, H Rose, and Italian university research partners
Funder: British Council ELT Research Award
Description: This project explored transitional challenges associated with high-school level and university level English medium instruction. It further investigated listening strategies associated with learning through the medium of English.
PI: Ernesto Macaro
CIs: J Briggs, H Rose, and Italian university research partners
Funder: British Council ELT Research Award
Description: This project explored transitional challenges associated with high-school level and university level English medium instruction. It further investigated listening strategies associated with learning through the medium of English.
Project: EMI Challenges in Japanese Universities [CONCLUDED]
PI: Heath Rose
CIs: J McKinley, G Thompson, I Aizawa
Funder: EMI Oxford
Description: This project explored EMI at Japanese universities. It investigated the relationship between language proficiency and educational challenges associated with EMI. It also explored vocabulary range of EMI students compared to that observed in EMI lectures and course materials.
PI: Heath Rose
CIs: J McKinley, G Thompson, I Aizawa
Funder: EMI Oxford
Description: This project explored EMI at Japanese universities. It investigated the relationship between language proficiency and educational challenges associated with EMI. It also explored vocabulary range of EMI students compared to that observed in EMI lectures and course materials.
Project: Understanding of Teachers’ Oral Explanations of Science Concepts [CONCLUDED]
PI: Victoria Murphy
CIs: E Macaro
Funder: EMI Oxford
Description: This project explored transitional challenges associated with high-school level and university level English medium instruction. It further investigated listening strategies associated with learning through the medium of English.
PI: Victoria Murphy
CIs: E Macaro
Funder: EMI Oxford
Description: This project explored transitional challenges associated with high-school level and university level English medium instruction. It further investigated listening strategies associated with learning through the medium of English.
Project: Corpus of EMI lectures [CONCLUDED]
PI: Jessica Briggs
Funder: John Fell Fund
Description: This project aimed to compile a corpus of EMI lectures from around the world to allow for future linguistic analysis.
PI: Jessica Briggs
Funder: John Fell Fund
Description: This project aimed to compile a corpus of EMI lectures from around the world to allow for future linguistic analysis.
Project: English as a Medium of Instruction in primary schools in South America: A review of the evidence [CONCLUDED]
PI: Jiangshan An
CI: Victoria Murphy
Funder: Oxford University Press
Description: This project was a systematic review of EMI research conducted in primary schools in South America. It gathered and synthesized findings about good practices in EMI primary school classrooms in South America, the resources and teacher development programs available, and the landscape of EMI programs in this context. The challenges and needs facing the EMI primary school education in this context were also discussed
PI: Jiangshan An
CI: Victoria Murphy
Funder: Oxford University Press
Description: This project was a systematic review of EMI research conducted in primary schools in South America. It gathered and synthesized findings about good practices in EMI primary school classrooms in South America, the resources and teacher development programs available, and the landscape of EMI programs in this context. The challenges and needs facing the EMI primary school education in this context were also discussed
Ongoing doctoral research within the EMI Oxford Research Group
Project: EMI vocabulary strategies
Doctoral researcher: Minhui Wei
Supervisors: E Macaro, H Rose
Description: My Dphil 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.
Doctoral researcher: Minhui Wei
Supervisors: E Macaro, H Rose
Description: My Dphil 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.
Completed doctoral research
Dr. Ikuya Aizawa
My doctoral research focused on English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education in Japan. My research explored the costs and benefits to students quality of education, exploring content knowledge acquisition, and the various language-related and content learning-related challenges of studying through English as a second language.
My doctoral research focused on English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education in Japan. My research explored the costs and benefits to students quality of education, exploring content knowledge acquisition, and the various language-related and content learning-related challenges of studying through English as a second language.
Dr. Jack Pun
My doctoral research at the University of Oxford explored the teaching and learning process in EMI (English as medium of instruction) science classrooms, with particular interests on classroom interactions, use of L1 (First language)/ code-switching, teaching pedagogy in EMI classrooms, academic literacy in EMI context, language challenges and coping strategies, teachers and students’ views towards EMI in Hong Kong secondary schools.
My doctoral research at the University of Oxford explored the teaching and learning process in EMI (English as medium of instruction) science classrooms, with particular interests on classroom interactions, use of L1 (First language)/ code-switching, teaching pedagogy in EMI classrooms, academic literacy in EMI context, language challenges and coping strategies, teachers and students’ views towards EMI in Hong Kong secondary schools.
Dr. Samantha Curle
My doctoral research explored Japanese professors and students' attitudes towards EMI. The first main aim of this study was to use a structural equation model to discover what the main predictors of these attitudes are. The second main aim iswasto discover to what extent stakeholders consider EMI as enhancing or hindering teaching and learning. I hope to conduct future research projects exploring the implementation of EMI to expose effective EMI practices.
My doctoral research explored Japanese professors and students' attitudes towards EMI. The first main aim of this study was to use a structural equation model to discover what the main predictors of these attitudes are. The second main aim iswasto discover to what extent stakeholders consider EMI as enhancing or hindering teaching and learning. I hope to conduct future research projects exploring the implementation of EMI to expose effective EMI practices.
Dr. Jiangshan An
My doctoral research investigated the verbal interaction patterns between foreign native English speaking science teachers and Chinese students in English-only science classes in the foreign high school programs in China. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis of multiple aspects of classroom interaction, implications are drawn regarding the opportunities for science and English learning. The teachers’ and students’ beliefs about effective learning of science and English are also explored.
My doctoral research investigated the verbal interaction patterns between foreign native English speaking science teachers and Chinese students in English-only science classes in the foreign high school programs in China. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis of multiple aspects of classroom interaction, implications are drawn regarding the opportunities for science and English learning. The teachers’ and students’ beliefs about effective learning of science and English are also explored.
Dr. Kari Sahan
My research explored 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.
My research explored 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.
