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- Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education
- Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Critical Views of English Medium Instruction
- Part I Ideologies and Educational Policies
- 2 Conceptualisations of English in an Italian EMI Context
- 3 Ideologies of Language Use in an EMI University in Hong Kong
- 4 Burdening EMI with Unnecessary Baggage
- 5 Entrepreneurial Orientations towards Language and Education
- 6 A Critical Approach to the Rise of EMI
- Part II Identity and Educational Justice
- Part III The Politics of English in Education
- Afterword
- Index
- References
4 - Burdening EMI with Unnecessary Baggage
Critiquing an EMI Case in Japan as an Ideologically Laden Undertaking
from Part I - Ideologies and Educational Policies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2025
- Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education
- Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Critical Views of English Medium Instruction
- Part I Ideologies and Educational Policies
- 2 Conceptualisations of English in an Italian EMI Context
- 3 Ideologies of Language Use in an EMI University in Hong Kong
- 4 Burdening EMI with Unnecessary Baggage
- 5 Entrepreneurial Orientations towards Language and Education
- 6 A Critical Approach to the Rise of EMI
- Part II Identity and Educational Justice
- Part III The Politics of English in Education
- Afterword
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter is grounded in the storied realities of an EMI programme in a Japanese university where one entire campus was transformed into an English-speaking operation. The accompanying rhetoric reified campus ‘internationalization’ as part of the quest for institutional ‘renewal’. Given the ambitiousness and contentiousness of this undertaking, the EMI programme would eventually become implicated in controversies over the workings of underlying ideologies linked to campus Englishization. In so forcibly compounding Englishization, internationalization, and institutional renewal with EMI, the administration introduced a set of ancillary activities and practices involving advertising and faculty recruitment that bore only peripheral relevance to EMI. While principally irrelevant to EMI, these undertakings were not arbitrary but a part of using EMI to fulfil agendas that went beyond concerns over medium of instruction per se, or for that matter education. In this critique the authors consider these peripheral undertakings to be para-EMI activities and argue that these activities were influenced by prevailing cultural political and socio-economic relations within Japanese society.
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- Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education , pp. 54 - 69Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025