The introduction of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has changed higher education enormously in many European countries. This development is increasingly encapsulated under the term Englishization, that is, the increasing dispersion of English as a means of communication in non-Anglophone contexts. Englishization is not undisputed: legal challenges have arisen in several countries. Nor is it uniform; universities across Europe embrace Englishization, but they do so in their own way. In this volume, authors from 15 European countries present analyses from a range of perspectives coalescing around core concerns: the quality of education, cultural identity, inequality of opportunities and access, questions of justice and democracy, and internationalization and language policy. This book will appeal to researchers in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, educational sciences, and political science, as well as policy makers and people with a concern about the direction of higher education.

About the Author
Robert Wilkinson conducts research on English-medium instruction and multilingualism. Rene Gabriels's current research concerns English-medium instruction and food banks. Both work in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University, Netherlands.

Reviews
"The book edited by Robert Wilkinson and Rene Gabriels offers a versatile look into the various tensions between English and the majoritized and minoritized languages in European higher education. It adds to the literature on English in European higher education by showing in practice how contextualized the role of English in the end is."
- Taina Saarinen, Higher Education, issue 87(1), 2024



Book Information
ISBN 9789463727358
Author Robert Wilkinson
Format Hardback
Page Count 382
Imprint Amsterdam University Press
Publisher Amsterdam University Press