John Airey|Karen M. Lauridsen|Anne Räsänen|Linus Sälö|Vera Schwach
The expansion of English-medium instruction in the Nordic countries: Can top-down university language policies encourage bottom-up disciplinary literacy goals?
Linnaeus University|Aarhus University|University of Jyväskylä|Stockholm University|Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
recently wake bologna declaration similar international initiatives rapid increase number university courses programmes taught medium english surveys consistently shown nordic countries forefront trend towards englishmedium instruction emi paper discuss introduction emi four nordic countries denmark finland norway sweden present educational setting emi debate countries summarize relevant research findings make tentative suggestions introduction emi higher education countries particular interested university language policies relevance daytoday work faculty problematize onesizefitsall university language policies suggesting order policies seen relevant need flexible enough take account disciplinary differences respect make specific suggestions content university language policies emi course syllabuses recommend university language policies encourage discussion disciplinary literacy goals require course syllabuses detail disciplinaryspecific languagelearning outcomes