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English-medium instruction
Internationalizing Higher
(EMI) in European Higher
Education Institutions
Education Area
Italy
Preparing students for a global University of the Basque
world Country (UBC)
France
Spanish
Attracting more international Netherlands
students
Basque
Germany
Providing students with skills
for a global job market English
Poland
Research Locale
University of Basque Country
1,700 administration
personnel
-AP and TS were more 5th Coexistence of English -AP and TS were more
positive regarding and Basque Results supportive of the presence of
supporting the presence of multilingualism in the
English at the university. -LS demand to have more university than the LS who
opportunities to learn provided more comments on
- LS do not agree with the Basque bec. English is a the disadvantages of the
presence of EMI. threat to Basque spread of multilingualism.
normalization process.
- All were unhappy on
students’ lack of foreign - AP and TS believe that
language competence. English has no negative
influence on the promotion
of Basque.
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Acceptance of the
flexibility of the target
language
Accepting translanguaging
in the classroom