English medium instruction as a local practice [electronic resource] : language, culture and pedagogy / Jinghe Han.

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.

From the perspective of translanguaging and instruction theories, this Open Access book examines Chinese English Medium Instruction (EMI) lecturers' linguistic and pedagogical characteristics. This book demonstrate that 'English' in EMI is not a monolingual issue and EMI lecturers have applied their bilingual advantages to systematically and strategically advance their pedagogy practices through a translanguaging process. This book reflects upon EMI lecturers' culture-imbedded teaching and learning philosophies and explores the implications of local classroom practices, such as topic-centered instruction and teacher presentation through demonstration. This book argues that EMI teaching is not an approach that can reach universal consent across linguistic, cultural and educational systems; it is an approach that is exclusively contextualised in the lecturers' closely related cultural and educational system, and restricted by the available resources. This is an open access book.