Prof. Andy Kirkpatrick's Talk - Abstract and biodata

Special Talk by Professor Andy Kirkpatrick

Date/ Time: Saturday, 25 February 2017 (13:30 - 15:00)

Venue：Room 514, Building 14, Waseda Campus, Waseda University

Title: EMI in Higher Education in East and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Proposals

Abstract:

The role of English as a medium of instruction and an academic lingua franca in international universities outside the traditional English dominant societies of the UK, North America, and Australasia has become increasingly important over the last three decades. This is as true in the universities of Asia as it is in those of Europe. In this presentation I shall first consider the motivations for this increase in EMI programmes and then review the development of EMI programmes in a selection of universities across East and Southeast Asia. I shall address a number of related questions including the use of other languages and bilingual practices within EMI programmes and how the ‘E’ in EMI is being understood – as a native speaker variety of English or as English as an academic lingua franca. I shall also discuss the extent to which the universities that have promoted EMI courses have (or have not) developed appropriate language policies which clearly articulate how English and other languages might most successfully be combined in EMI programmes. I shall conclude with suggestions on how EMI might be successfully implemented.

Biodata: Andy Kirkpatrick is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Professor in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He has lived and worked in many countries in East and Southeast Asia, including China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Myanmar and Singapore. He is the author of World Englishes: Implications for ELT and International Communication (CUP) and English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN: a multilingual model (Hong Kong University Press). He is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of World Englishes. His most recent books are English as an Asian Language: implications for language education, co-edited with Roly Sussex and published by Springer, and Chinese Rhetoric and Writing, co-authored with Xu Zhichang and published by Parlor Press. He is the founding and chief editor of the journal and book series Multilingual Education, published by Springer. He is currently co-editing two new handbooks namely, Asian Englishes (Wiley-Blackwell with Kingsley Bolton as co-editor) and Language Education Policy in Asia (Routledge with Tony Liddicoat as co-editor)