English Medium Instruction as a Local Practice

Jinghe Han is a Professor in Language Education at the Centre for Educational Research within the School of Education, Western Sydney University. Her research areas include bilingual language teacher education, translanguaging and English as a Medium of Instruction. She is the author of the books Theorising Culture – A Chinese Perspective, Post-lingual Pedagogy: Hanzi Method. Jinghe is also actively researching the pedagogy of HDR teaching. She is the co-author of the book Pedagogies for Internationalising Research Education and has successfully supervised over 50 HDR students to completion in the past ten years.

• Chapter 1: English Medium Instruction:  Expanding Notions of English Hegemony and Colonization.- Chapter 2: Conceptualization of English Medium Instruction.- Chapter 3: Pedagogical Position and Instructional Practice in EMI Teaching.- Chapter 4: Chinese EMI Lecturers’ Engagement Strategies.- Chapter 5: Cross-linguistic Influence: Bilingual EMI Lecturers’ English and Chinese Entwined.- Chapter 6: Pragmatic Transfer: Reflecting on the Use of EMI Lecturers’ Pragmatic Markers.- Chapter 7: When Structuralism and Post-structuralism Collide: EMI lecturers’ Monolingual Ideology and Translanguaging Practice.- Chapter 8: The Research on English Medium Instruction and a Proposed Constructivist EMI Teaching Framework.