Mustafa Akıncıoğlu

University of Oxford | OX · Department of Education

English Medium Instruction (EMI) is a rapidly trending phenomenon especially in the context of Higher Education (HE) globally. A historical milestone in this trend may be 1995 when Maastricht University first used the concept of EMI for some of their academic programs. Despite attracting increasing levels of attention from the inter/national HE sta...

English Medium Instruction (EMI) is a rapidly trending phenomenon especially in the context of Higher Education (HE) globally. A historical milestone in this trend may be 1995 when Maastricht University first used the concept of EMI for some of their academic programs. Despite attracting increasing levels of attention from the inter/national HE sta...

English Medium Instruction (EMI) defined by Macaro (2018) as “the use of the English language to teach academic subjects (other than English itself) in countries or jurisdictions where the first language (L1) of the majority of the population is not English” has a rapid use rate around the word. Turkey, as a country which stretching across both Eur...

en The growth in academic subjects taught through English, in non‐Anglophone countries (English medium instruction, EMI) has been matched by growth in research into its desirability. Research has also indicated that EMI teachers need professional development (PD) to teach effectively. Although PD programmes are available, there is no consensus as t...

In Turkey, as in much of the rest of the non-Anglophone world, universities are offering an increasing number of courses through English Medium Instruction (EMI) rather than through the medium of the first language (L1) of the majority of the population. Previous research has explored teacher and student perceptions and attitudes towards EMI and th...

Can Preparatory Year English teachers and EMI lecturers work together? This report is the result of a collaborative planning research project at PYP and universities in Turkey.

p> We report on a study exploring the level of success of collaboration in lesson planning between English language specialists and content teachers in Turkish universities where academic subjects are being taught through the medium of English. Although some previous research exists on collaboration of this kind at the secondary education level, an...

This Dissertation presents a first of a kind Critical Evaluation Framework for materials in Higher Education settings. The research is based on Critical Discourse Analysis that opted for the Critical School of Frankfurt while demystifying the neoliberal ideologies within the discourses constructed by the publishers. Lastly, this Dissertation consid...

Grabe, Benson and Stoller (2001) state that the importance of helping students become more autonomous in their second language learning has become one of the prominent themes both in the theory and practice of language teaching and learning in the new century. The remit of this paper is to provide insight to the concept of learner autonomy (LA) par...

Learner autonomy in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) settings. This paper examines various approached to define 'learner autonomy' while creating links to the motivational theories.