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English language ideologies and students’ perception of international English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) Master's programmes: A Chinese case study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2018

Yang Song
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To be engaged in the economic, political and technological processes of globalization, higher education institutions around the world have included internationalization as part of their long-term mission, and China is no exception. The number of international students on campus is a well-recognized index of the universities’ internationalized status. According to the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People's Republic of China, in 2016 there were 442,773 international students studying in China, 209,966 of whom were enrolled in degree programmes in Chinese higher education institutions, and 63,867 (47.42%) studied as postgraduate students (MOE, 2017).

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English Today , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , September 2019 , pp. 22 - 28
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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