Abstract

The content lecturer and English-medium instruction (EMI) : epilogue to the special issue on EMI in higher education

Highlights

  • I summarise and comment on the work presented by the authors of the six papers in the special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism on Englishmedium instruction (EMI) in higher education, edited by Aintzane Doiz and David Lasagabaster

  • First introduced by Halliday (1978) social semiotics was later given a critical flavour by Hodge and Kress (1988)

  • Following Airey and Linder (2017), I define social semiotics as the study of the development and reproduction of specialised systems of meaning making in particular sections of society

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John Airey

To cite this article: John Airey (2020) The content lecturer and English-medium instruction (EMI): epilogue to the special issue on EMI in higher education, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 23:3, 340-346, DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2020.1732290 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2020.1732290

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Introduction
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EMI and the content lecturer
Disciplinary literacy
Operationalising disciplinary literacy
Where next for EMI?

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