English Medium Instruction in Secondary Education

Policy, Challenges and Practices in Science Classrooms

Jack Pun

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9780367431457
• eBook ISBN: 9781003857150
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Jack Pun presents best practices in pedagogy and teaching to facilitate effective content-subject learning at the secondary school level.

Increasingly, parents are sending their children to English Medium Instruction (EMI) secondary schools in their home countries, to prepare them for full immersion in EMI in English native-speaking countries. The book explores the teaching and learning processes in EMI senior secondary science classrooms based in thirty secondary schools in Hong Kong. Conducting analyses of classroom, teacher and student perception data, the author discusses the issues of teaching science through the medium of English in secondary schools, the implications and applications for professional development of science teachers and other content-subject teachers, and suggests strategies for teaching science in different EMI contexts.

This volume is highly relevant to scholars in the field of educational linguistics, particularly in English language teaching, content-based instruction, content and language integrated learning, and English as a medium of instruction. It is also useful to education policymakers, school teachers, research students, English and education majors.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures, tables and excerpt
• Acknowledgements
• Transcription conventions
• Introduction
• 1 English medium of instruction around the world
• 2 EMI policies and practices
• 3 Research methods
• 4 Quantitative analysis of classroom interactions in early–full and late–partial EMI science classrooms
• 5 Qualitative analysis of classroom interactions in early–full and late–partial EMI science classrooms
• 6 Science teachers’ perceptions of their EMI experiences
• 7 Science students’ perceptions of their EMI experiences
• 8 Science students’ perception of their EMI learning journeys: Findings on the factored variables
• 9 Closing the gap between policies and practices: EMI research in theory and practice
• 10 Conclusion
• Index