Patrick Studer

• Professor
• Professor at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Interaction undoubtedly is key to learning in higher education. It is particularly relevant in an English medium instruction (EMI) setting when students use a foreign language for learning as it provides important opportunities for the negotiation of meaning. In this article, we present and critically discuss EMI teacher training interventions in S...

This chapter reviews the current discourses surrounding English in higher education, focusing on the impact Englishization has had on education and language policy-planning in Switzerland. While English is in direct competition with national languages at the obligatory school levels, and the debate about the status of English is evident in national...

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 ch...

The increasing use of English as a medium of education (EME) in higher education has attracted an impressive amount of applied linguistic research, reflecting the pivotal role language plays in teaching and learning processes. This, however, stands in sharp contrast to the equally prolific body of research into the internationalisation of higher ed...

This contribution analyses the argumentative premises underlying applied linguistic research conducted in the area of English-medium instruction. Applied linguistics not only studies language as it is used in the real world but is widely understood as an approach through which real-world problems in matters of language can be solved. It comes as no...

Internationalization is a policy area of significant relevance and interest to higher education institutions (HEIs) which is aimed at enhancing higher education quality in an increasingly interconnected world. In their internationalization efforts, HEIs chiefly rely on national and supranational initiatives issued by policy agencies. In Europe, the...

In light of the Bologna reform, professional and vocational schools have progressively moved towards becoming formal higher education institutions. In this context, Universities of Teacher Education (UTE) in Switzerland have undergone significant changes with respect to their role in society over the past decades. One of the major changes in this p...

In Swiss higher education, the number of English-taught programmes has steadily increased in recent years. Most higher education institutions also offer English for specific purposes courses. The purpose of these courses is to equip students with the necessary skills to participate in disciplinary discourse in English and to sensitise them to lingu...

Hochschulen stehen bei der Förderung der Mehrsprachigkeit vor unbeantworteten Fragen: Soll der Unterricht institutsübergreifend oder auf departementaler Ebene geregelt werden? Was bedeutet dies für die institutionelle Angliederung der Sprachdozierenden? Welchen Status hat der Sprachunterricht und wie kann dieser gefördert werden? Vorliegender Artik...

Looking in greater detail at the role of lecturers, this publication reports results of a project introducing English as a medium of instruction in a bachelor-level programme in the natural sciences offered by a university of applied sciences in German-speaking Switzerland. The three papers in this publication focus on key aspects arising from the...

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This paper addresses the question of how undergraduate students negotiate linguistic competence of their university lecturers following the switch of the classroom medium of instruction from German to English. Emphasizing the concept of intersubjectivity in classroom communities of practice, this paper aims at revealing interpretative repertoires u...

This paper is concerned with the ways ideologies relating to multilingualism and linguistic diversity influence action and interaction, emphasising the relevance of performance style as an analytic criterion for analysis. It particularly deals with social contexts in which language becomes something that needs to be ‘managed’ or ‘planned’, both con...

This book presents cutting-edge research into the complex interrelationships between linguistic diversity and ideology. It provides insight into how institutions and individual stakeholders carry ideologies forward into the discursive space through policies, propaganda or individual perceptions and reflections. The chapters focus on different Europ...

This book presents cutting-edge research into the complex interrelationships between linguistic diversity and ideology. It provides insight into how institutions and individual stakeholders carry ideologies forward into the discursive space through policies, propaganda or individual perceptions and reflections. The chapters focus on different Europ...

This book, which emerges in the context of the European research network LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), is concerned with European multilingualism both as a political concept and as a social reality. It features cutting-edge studies by linguists and anthropologists who perceive multilingualism as a discursive phenomenon whic...

This report is to be understood as an introduction to linguistic questions surrounding the analysis of language policy-planning, using the example of the EU as a supranational organization. It is intended to provide a first overview of the specificity of EU discourses on linguistic and cultural diversity.

This volume presents a variety of pragmatic and discourse analytical approaches to a wide range of linguistic data and historical texts, including data from English, French, Irish, Latin, and Spanish. This diversity of research questions and methods is a feature of the field of historical pragmatics, which by its very nature has to take into accoun...

Newspapers have recently become attractive objects of interest to linguists, but little research has been done thus far on news discourse of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The present study contributes to filling this gap by reporting results from a corpus-based study of early English-language newspaper headlines. The analysis reveals th...