This extensive volume on English-medium instruction in higher education (EMI) offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of a multi-layered world Englishes perspective on EMI, highlighting the importance of sociolinguistic context in the planning and implementation of EMI policies across diverse regions. This Handbook will be of immense value for researchers and scholars in the field.Professor Vijay K. Bhatia,Chinese University of Hong KongThis volume offers a comprehensive synthesis of EMI research and practice across the world. It is impressive in its geographical breadth, its theoretical depth, and its empirical rigour. It will no doubt become a foundational work in the field and help to set the agenda for future work in this area. Professor Rodney Jones,University of ReadingEnglish-medium instruction (EMI) has been the most impactful and still expanding language education phenomenon in the last twenty years. This Handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of EMI across the globe. It will undoubtedly become an essential reference for researchers and practitioners worldwide.Professor Li Wei, Director and Dean, Institute of Education, University College LondonEnglish-medium instruction in higher education (EMI) is of key concern to academics and educationalists, as well as to decision makers and politicians. This timely Handbook explores these interests through a coherent and concrete set of empirical findings. It is an essential read in understanding how the English language currently shapes the many ways in which learning and teaching are managed in higher education.Professor Christopher J. Jenks, Intercultural Communication, Utrecht UniversityThis timely and important Handbook provides a theoretical and empirical overview of the exponential development of EMI worldwide. Its focus on the importance/significance of examining these developments critically, conceptually, and contextually is what makes it an absolute must read.Professor Stephen May, University of Auckland, New ZealandThis volume is a tour de force--an essential resource for anyone working in the field of EMI. It traces the complex and pluricentric intellectual history of this rapidly maturing field and charts a course for its continued theoretical and methodological development.Professor Francis M. Hult,University of Maryland, USAThis Handbook offers a comprehensive look at what happens around the world when English is used as a teaching medium in higher education. The editors are to be congratulated for bringing together an impressive list of scholars-contributors, whose expertise covers an astounding geography in this important field of scholarship.Professor Patricia Friedrich,Arizona State University, USA
