Meeting the challenges of English-medium higher education: The first-year experience in Hong Kong
By S. Evans, Bruce Morrison. 2011
355 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1307540893d6ec5a13a10a44c92fca597aedd449
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Citations in the corpus
- Chinese students’ perceptions of English learning affordances and their agency in an English-medium instruction classroom context (2019, result): “It is in this light that they resemble those successful EMI students documented by Evans and Morrison (2011) in Hong Kong, who understood the essential role of English skills in making academic and professional achievement even in their first year in university.”
- Understanding L2 Speaking Problems: Implications for ESL Curriculum Development in a Teacher Training Institution in Hong Kong. (2012, background): “To further illustrate the language-related challenges that first-year undergraduates faced when adjusting to the demands of English-medium higher education in Hong Kong, Evans and Morrison (2011) further focused on three students from different societal, educational and disciplinary backgrounds so a”
- Beyond the threshold: Exploring English language proficiency, linguistic challenges, and academic language skills of Japanese students in an English medium instruction programme (2020, methodology): “This contradicts other studies that have noted writing to be a major challenge for EMI students from tasks such as note-taking (e.g. Andrade, 2006), essay writing exams (e.g. Breeze & Dafouz, 2017) to using appropriate academic style in essay writing (e.g. Evans & Morrison, 2011).”
- A systematic review of English medium instruction in higher education (2017, background): “Notable exceptions are in Taiwan (Yeh 2014) and Hong Kong (Evans & Morrison 2011).”