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South Korean higher education English-medium instruction (EMI) policy

From ‘resentment’ to ‘remedy'

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2023

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In the past two decades, South Korean universities’ ‘top-down’ implementation of English-medium instruction (EMI) policy has been critiqued for inadequately addressing the linguistic challenges students and instructors face (Kim, 2017). Research suggests that rapid implementation of such policy is primarily motivated by the pursuit of internationalisation, where global ranking takes precedence over the appropriateness of the policy (D. W. Cho, 2012) resulting in issues of injustices (Williams & Stelma, 2022). As a result, of these injustices, taking EMI courses is not a popular choice amongst South Korean higher education students.

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English Today , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , December 2023 , pp. 275 - 280
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