Mehmet Altay

Kocaeli University · Department of Foreign Languages Education

This article reports a mixed-methods study that examined academic success in an Economics programme at a public university in Turkey. Test score data from English Medium Instruction (EMI) and Turkish Medium Instruction (TMI) courses and general English proficiency (GEP) scores were collected from fourth-year students (n=159). Follow-up semi-structu...

Turkey has always been a host for Syrians who had to leave their country due to the political and military unrest ongoing for over a decade. Inevitably, Syrian higher education candidates are to choose either a Turkish or an English medium program. Having a background in English as a global language, most of the candidates prioritize the latter to...

This mixed-methods study explores self-regulated language learning strategies among students at a Turkish state university enrolled in English Medium Instruction (EMI) courses. It examines how these strategies vary across different language proficiency levels and academic divisions, specifically focusing on Social Sciences (n=22) and Engineering st...

Higher education institutions around the world are adopting English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) more frequently due to the expanding trends of globalisation and internationalisation, particularly in non-English speaking nations. The Preparatory Year Programs (PYP) offered by EMI universities in Turkey are the subject of the current study since...

In Turkey, many higher education institutions offer programs where English is either partially or entirely used as medium of instruction (Yüksel et al., 2022). To ensure students in such programs reach the required proficiency level in English, nearly every university mandates a preparatory year of English education (Macaro et al., 2016). Additiona...

Motivated by the need for a deeper exploration of the place of English in EMI, this chapter examines (a) how non-language EMI faculty perceive the place of English in EMI and (b) what they think about content and language specialists’ collaboration. The participants were 18 content specialists from the engineering discipline and 18 others from soci...

With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world were forced to take emergency measures in every aspect of life including education. Instead of the prevalent face-to-face mode of teaching, institutions turned to online teaching one by one. This brought many issues along with it. Because of distance education, it became quite...

This chapter introduces the edited volume titled: Multilingual and Translingual Practices in English-Medium Instruction Perspectives from Global Higher Education Contexts. First, this chapter explores the adoption and impact of multilingual and translingual practices in English-Medium Instruction (EMI) within global higher education. It examines t...

This volume explores context-related ways in which the multilingual EMI model and translingual practices are seen and enacted in higher education contexts across the globe. Research on this topic is not only timely but also very much needed, particularly in contexts that are relatively new to EMI, as well as in contexts where monolingual forms of t...

English Medium Instruction (EMI) refers to the use of the English language to teach academic subjects where first language of the majority of the population is not English. One popular implementation of EMI, the Multilingual Model, would imply that some aspects (e.g. courses, sessions in some courses, and/or assessment) are taught through English,...

EMI programmes have grown exponentially in various parts of the world. While the reasons for the growth in EMI programmes have been commonly discussed, the consequences or outcomes of EMI studies did not attract too much attention. Moreover, various stakeholders of EMI, such as students, lecturers, parents and administrators, have been examined, bu...

The aim of this book is to substantiate the need for online/technological/digi- tal pedagogical knowledge and skills for teaching English. This addresses a wide variety of stakeholders who can benefit from this book. To list, they are pre-service English language teachers, the academic teachers working at the Department of English Language Teaching...

In Turkey, many higher education institutions offer some or all of their programs in English (Yuksel et al., 2022). In order to bring students in these programs to the desired level of English proficiency, almost every university has a mandatory preparatory education (Macaro et al., 2016). In addition, students who take field courses in English aft...

Universities which adopt the Preparatory Year Model of EMI offer a kind of intensive bridging course at preparatory schools to novice students who do not have the requisite level of English proficiency to study in English (Macaro, 2018). Only after succeeding in this course can they start taking content courses at their faculties. In the Turkish co...

This chapter examined the numbers of the English Medium Instruction (EMI) programmes in Turkish higher education by illustrating the situation in 1999 and comparing it with the most current data (2019) to provide evidence to the commonly discussed exponential growth in EMI programmes in the Turkish setting. It also reviewed the Turkish Council of H...

This article reports a quantitative study that investigated academic achievement in English medium instruction (EMI) courses at a public university in Turkey. Student test score data on EMI and Turkish medium instruction (TMI) courses as well as general English proficiency scores were collected in two academic divisions: the mathematical, physical,...

Recent global trends of Englishization and internationalization of higher education institutions and increased student mobility have led to an enormous boost in the number of programs taught in English, both globally (Bothwell, 2017; Dearden, 2014; Kirkpatrick, 2014; Macaro et al., 2018) and in Turkey (Aslan, 2018; West et al., 2015), which is the...

English-Medium Instruction (EMI) is a rapidly growing global phenomenon in countries where English is a second or foreign language. This book focuses on empirical research studies conducted on this growing trend in the Middle East and North Africa, an under-researched area with regards to the effects and challenges of the implementation of EMI in h...

Abstract The interplay between students’ proficiency in English and learning in English has long received considerable attention. Previous research often regarded ESP success as a significant predictor of EMI success (Terraschke & Wahid, 2011; Xie and Curle, 2019), sometimes even better compared to general English proficiency (Rose, Curle, Aizawa,...

The use of first language (L1) in English Medium Instruction (EMI) settings is a topic that has received little attention among researchers (Macaro et al., 2018), and is a topic worth exploring considering the conflict in the field of language teaching and learning (see Hall & Cook, 2012; Lin, 2013, for recent reviews). In some relatively few studi...

OPEN ACCESS - download full text here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2021.102651 This article reports a quantitative empirical study that explored the relationship between English language proficiency and academic language-related challenges experienced by students when studying through English Medium Instruction (EMI). Questionnaire data using...

This article reports a quantitative empirical study that investigated whether English language proficiency increases over time when studying academic content through English Medium Instruction (EMI). It was also investigated whether an increase in proficiency predicts EMI academic achievement. Student English language test score data and Grade Poin...

Students’ competence in the English language is mostly recognized as being an important factor in their academic success in English-Medium Instruction (EMI) courses. Over the past decade, only a handful of research within this context has emphasized specifically the influence of EAP in terms of learning outcomes and student attainment (e.g., Bolton...

English medium instruction (EMI) in university-level engineering programmes is becoming the norm globally as well as in Turkey due to the internationalisation and job opportunities in this field. However, research about the job prospects among the engineering graduates who studied in EMI programmes are quite limited compared to the presence and dom...

The exponential growth of EMI is attributed to various factors depending on social differences. In the context of Turkey, the promising nature of EMI over the job prospects plays a significant role for students’ academic decisions. Turkish universities generally implement either full EMI or partial EMI. Previous studies have mainly addressed EMI at...

English Medium Instruction (EMI) is increasingly recognized as an intriguing phenomenon for researchers in not only Higher Education (HE) but also professional context. Although engineering is one of the most appealing field in this regard, little has been done to investigate the influence of EMI over graduates' career. Two types of EMI, partial an...

Abstract. English Medium Instruction (EMI) is increasingly recognized as an intriguing phenomenon for researchers in not only Higher Education (HE) but also professional context. Although engineering is one of the most appealing field in this regard, little has been done to investigate the influence of EMI over graduates’ career. Two types of EMI,...

The exponential growth of EMI is attributed to various factors depending on social differences. In the context of Turkey, the promising nature of EMI over the job prospects plays a significant role for students' academic decisions. Turkish universities generally implement either full EMI or partial EMI. Previous studies have mainly addressed EMI at...

Rosenthal effect, also known as expectancy effect, is a psychological phenomenon at which individual’s acts take the form of what others, very often an authority or a respected one, expects from them. It appears to be among the determinant factors for students while selecting their path to higher education. On the other hand, the previous research...

The exponential growth of EMI is attributed to various factors depending on social differences. In the context of Turkey, the promising nature of EMI over the job prospects plays a significant role for students’ academic decisions. Turkish universities generally implement either full EMI or partial EMI. Previous studies have mainly addressed EMI at...

The axis of task research has shifted from task design to task planning, and rehearsal as a pre-task planning has been less touched upon throughout the history of the SLA (Second Language Acquisition); therefore, the current research was set around task rehearsal after PPP (Present-Practise-Product) model instruction in the task-supported language...

A striking feature in human languages that is commonly investigated in contrastive analyses is the use of copular elements. They are used as linking verbs in certain languages while inflectional morphemes can function in the same vein in others such as the enclitic languages. Based upon their syntactic order, the clauses in which the main verb is a...

The use of literature for language teaching purposes has always been a controversial issue in different contexts all around the world. It is still being discussed whether it is a good idea to include literary works in the course material list of language classrooms because even though literary works enable learners to see authentic samples of the t...

Words have always mattered in meaning making; and thus, have always been on the research agenda of linguists and language educators, Either in the form of vocabulary which is learnt or known.

Despite the fact that copular verbs, or linking verbs, such as the verb “be” are widely regarded as less complex verbs than lexical verbs, they also have the potential to turn into the crux of certain syntactic problems in EFL classrooms. In this sense, it has been observed over many years’ classroom experience that the Turkish learners of English...

Problem Statement: Teaching is a multi-dimensional profession including an observable behavioural dimension and an unobservable cognitive dimension, which includes teacher beliefs, thoughts and knowledge. The differences between these two dimensions have been an important aspect of teacher education recently. Purpose: This study aims to investigate...

One of the foremost indicators of linguistic proficiency is attributable to target vocabulary competence when the issue is foreign language education. With this in mind, great extent of ESP instruction focuses on and deals with learning new words. Lexical items which are “learned” for a specific purpose, nevertheless, do not necessarily constitute...

It is generally stated that assessment and grading are essential aspects of effective teaching. The purpose of this investigation is to describe actual classroom assessment and grading practices of EFL teachers teaching in different levels; namely, primary school, secondary school, high school, and university and also to understand whether they are...

Associating a content word to its rational semantic relations is regarded as a language learning strategy which explicitly contributes to mental lexicon. Semantic mapping herein seems to constitute an efficacious pattern for its practice in language instruction. Conversely, it appears to be among the least frequently used vocabulary learning strate...

This study aims to investigate how the lecturers in the foreign language teaching departments approach literature at the faculties of education of different universities in Turkey. A survey including some questions related to the participants’ gender, experience and the basic activities they are carrying out in the classroom was used to find out wh...

In Chapter 6, Dr. Mehmet Altay and Dr. Kenan Dikilitaş discuss the teaching vocabulary skill for student teachers. They stress that vocabulary teaching has always been among the most popular issues of linguistic pedagogy though the needs, strategies, and purposes of language learners may have shown variation in time. In this chapter, our readers ar...

The current study consists of two phases as experimental and descriptive.The primary aim hereby is to raise awareness towards lexical semantic relations (LSRs) through semantic mapping as a vocabulary learning strategy. EFL learners’ individual and social experiences are intended to provide the necessary knowledge to fill the slots in their lexical...

Corpus linguistics has become a crucial methodology in linguistic studies in the last half of the 20th century and especially two types of it are frequently applied in ELT: (1) reference corpus which does not serve for a particular language variety, yet it is for general purposes, (2) learner corpus which is the output obtained from learners (Ba...

Hyperkinetic disorders (HD) are very common disorders in childhood with a percentage of 2 %. Among their symptoms, language deficiencies are usually observed as they may affect neurocognitive mechanisms related to language competence and performance. The present study aims at observing these language deficiencies. The data came from an 8 year-old p...