Evolving Agendas in European English-Medium Higher Education

Clive W. Earls is currently Lecturer in German and Linguistics at the School of Modern Languages, Literature and Culture at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. He teaches and publishes primarily on Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Sociolinguistics, Language Policy and Planning and Higher Education Policy.

• Introduction1. English in Contemporary German Society & English Medium-of-instruction Programmes2. Language Policy and Planning in 21st Century Europe3. Internationalisation, Globalisation and English-medium Higher Education4. English Medium-of-instruction Programmes as Platforms of Intercultural Teaching and Learning5. English Medium-of-instruction Programmes as a Mechanism of Brain Drain, Gain and Circulation6. English Medium-of-instruction Programmes as a Concomitant Challenge to, and Mechanism of, Implicit German Language Policy7. English Medium-of-instruction at Higher Education: Advancing Understanding of the Phenomenon