Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2019)

English-Medium Instruction for International Students from the Belt and Road Countries: Necessity, Challenges, and Countermeasures

Authors
Zhi-jun Yan, Jun Wen, Yong-jian Zong
Corresponding Author
Jun Wen
Available Online August 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.4How to use a DOI?
Keywords
English-medium instruction (EMI), International student, the Belt and Road (B&R)
Abstract

Remarkably comprehensive economic and social outcomes have been achieved since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was unveiled in 2013. With the RRI being well under way, an ever increasing number of students from the Belt and the Road (B&R) countries are flowing to China to pursue undergraduate or postgraduate degree programs, which calls for large-scale implementation of English-medium instruction (EMI) across Chinese universities. As a new thing, however, EMI for students from the B&R countries is facing a host of problems and even controversies. This paper, by drawing upon the authors’ personal EMI teaching experiences and taking global EMI tendency into consideration, discusses the necessity as well as the major challenges for EMI programs in Chinese universities, and finally puts forward the corresponding countermeasures. In the contemporary globalization and internet era, it is imperative to use English as a major teaching language. Chinese universities should push forward EMI courses for the B&R students in spite of the difficulties.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
August 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-772-0
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.4How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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