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A team of linguists and political scientists working to find out some of the whys and hows of English-medium Instruction in Europe

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[Adnan A. Husain @adnanahusain]

Tomorrow Office Hours returns at a special time, Fri Nov 28th at 3pmET, with a fascinating discussion.

Haunting Futures: Big Tech and Resistance w/@DrSyedMustafaA1

This is really one not to be missed!
https://t.co/qt9sGqf3ew

In this age of the machines and the oppression of the AI and algorithms, how can the human survive and even thrive? Dr. Syed Mustafa Ali, a radical computer scientist and decolonial scholar at the Open University-UK, joins us in Office Hours to provide anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist analysis of the racial regimes and colonizing constructs of Big Tech and the conceptual possibilities for resistance.

Mustafa will illuminate how the spectres of Marx, Ludd and those "Other"ed haunt the big tech future while big tech futures haunt our present by attempting to foreclose alternative futures. This is the tech struggle of our time. Do we need a "Butlerian jihad"? Does science fiction, like Frank Herbert's Dune series, point to Islamicate possibilities for resistance against the colonizing of big tech? What resources must we draw upon in political economy, political ecology and political theology?

This is going to be a superb opportunity to engage key questions of the past, present and future. Join us!

To prepare, check out Dr. Syed Mustafa Ali's fascinating recent article "A Butlerian Hauntology" in ReOrient, Journal of Critical Muslim Studies: https://t.co/j0wEBtrfA4

Support the show on Patreon if you can (and get early access to episodes)! https://t.co/L9c36kKY4S Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://t.co/ooPOF4xuY7

[ELEMENTAL @elemental_ukri]

Thank you to @BZuaro for her leadership on disentangling the mechanisms that drive the implementation of English-medium instruction in an Italian university. @Marion_Nao @DoganYuksel20 Peter Wingrove Derek Beach @akhultgren

[Beatrice Zuaro @BZuaro]

Research about EMI almost routinely connects it with internationalization, but how do we get to the core of what that really means?
Let us show you how with this brand new open-access paper just out on #AppliedLinguistics 🚀
https://t.co/UnETHyQca7

[ELEMENTAL @elemental_ukri]

How does EMI come about? In this article, led by @BZuaro, we disentangle the decision-making processes that give rise to English-medium instruction @BZuaro @Marion_Nao @DoganYuksel20 @akhultgren @PeterWingrove https://t.co/jYMK0D04D9

[ELEMENTAL @elemental_ukri]

And thanks and gratitude as always to the stellar
@elemental_ukri team @DoganYuksel20, @BZuaro, @Marion_Nao and @PeterWingrove.

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In this special issue https://t.co/3ZUlCyMjo7, we argue that English as a Medium of Instruction is too complex a topic to be studied within the confines of traditional disciplines.

[ELEMENTAL @elemental_ukri]

We would like to thank the editors and our creative contributors @adsoete @SHopkyns @AnnaMDillon1 , Danica, @Mehmet_Altay_41, @drmvandenhoven, Hasan,
@TM_Morton for paving out their own vision of interdisciplinarity in English-medium instruction.

[ELEMENTAL @elemental_ukri]

The field of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) is premised on EMI having risen "explosively" over the past decades. But how do we evidence it? See here: https://t.co/ZtE8FdiqDr Very proud of @PeterWingrove for leading and @BZuaro @DoganYuksel20 @Marion_Nao for supporting.

[Dogan Yuksel @DoganYuksel20]

A new paper on EMI that provides the latest numbers in English-taught programmes in Europe, and offers a methodological innovation about the operationalization of EMI programmes. Published open access in Applied Linguistics journal https://t.co/CbveBno6DD

[ELEMENTAL @elemental_ukri]

The @elemental_ukri team thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Kocaeli University. Thank you so much for hosting us!

[Dogan Yuksel @DoganYuksel20]

Join us at Kocaeli University (Umuttepe Campus) this Wednesday, April 30th, at 10:30 am for an insightful in-person talk by Prof. Kristina Hultgren (@akhultgren) on the impact of Englishization on European higher education. @Mehmet_Altay_41 @elemental_ukri

[ELEMENTAL @elemental_ukri]

Curious about the spread of EMI across European institutions? Our open access paper explores how institutional autonomy may be the driving this trend, highlighting a critical intersection between neoliberalism and the expansion of EMI across Europe

https://t.co/LuF9O3xmAu

[Dogan Yuksel @DoganYuksel20]

Our latest output from @elemental_ukri project: 'A Critical Approach to the Rise EMI' published in the book Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education edited by @MirhosseiniSA & @PeteridecostaG. https://t.co/Wjx0iv6Fwe @akhultgren @PeterWingrove @Marion_Nao @BZuaro

[Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini @MirhosseiniSA]

Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education
S. A. Mirhosseini and @PeteridecostaG
https://t.co/SSjHbqkSRN

@TupasRuanni @AnasHajar1 @elemental_ukri @DoganYuksel20 @PeterWingrove @Marion_Nao @BZuaro @akhultgren @isa_tejada @kzmontgomery @DrJimMcKinley

[Beatrice Zuaro @BZuaro]

So great to start the year seeing our @elemental_ukri special issue out on JEMI!
Five fresh and completely different contributions tackling interdisciplinarity in EMI research from various approaches and contexts: https://t.co/IektGAp2Nl

[ELEMENTAL @elemental_ukri]

Very excited to see this out! Check it out to learn more about the triggers of EMI growth in Turkish higher education.

[Dogan Yuksel @DoganYuksel20]

Our latest paper from @elemental_ukri project that examined the relationship between macro level language policy and rise of EMI in Turkey has been published open access in the Current Issues in Language Planning journal: https://t.co/0jM6MLZLfX

[Anna Kristina Hultgren @akhultgren]

Thank you to #BAAL2024 for a fantastic conference and the opportunity to present our work @elemental_ukri @DoganYuksel20 @BZuaro @BritishCouncil

[ELEMENTAL @elemental_ukri]

Our new paper, part of a wonderful JELF special issue, is out now and open access! 🔓

[Beatrice Zuaro @BZuaro]

Is EMI a great or terrible idea? What makes a university "good"? And why are these questions so difficult?

https://t.co/yDv7mGR3LA

[ELEMENTAL @elemental_ukri]

Hierarchical Regression, Process Tracing, and some suggestions to go beyond language with @PeterWingrove @BZuaro @akhultgren @SmitUte @EDafouz
Thank you for having us down under @SS25Perth!

[ELEMENTAL @elemental_ukri]

How can we make causal inferences about processes in Applied Linguistics?

See our latest paper, 'Process Tracing for Applied Linguistics' in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, by Nathan Thomas, @beach_methodman, and ourselves:

https://t.co/EVOZuU83iX

[Dogan Yuksel @DoganYuksel20]

Attending a workshop on ‘Developing a strategic internationalisation plan’ by European Association of International Education in Amsterdam as a part of our @elemental_ukri project.

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Thank to you everyone who came to our postdoc @PeterWingrove 's talk on the drivers of EMI in European Higher Education at #iatefl2024

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Our latest article is out now in Sociolinguistica. For those interested in EMI in European HE:

University autonomy and the increasing shift to English in academic programmes at European universities: In dialogue with Liviu Matei - Read on https://t.co/s7KIoYFzH0 @degruyter_pub