English-Medium Instruction at Universities: Global Challenges Aintzane Doiz, David Lasagabaster and Juan Manuel Sierra

Abstract

Reviewed by Annemieke Meijer
University College Utrecht, The Netherlands

1. INTRODUCTION

This collection of articles is an interesting and timely addition to the growing literature on the use of English as the language of instruction at universities in non-native contexts. In the past two decades, EMI (English-Medium Instruction, as the educational practice tends to be called when referring to the tertiary level, as opposed to the more thought-through pedagogical approach of Content and Language Integrated Learning or CLIL at secondary level) has caught on in many different countries and settings.