The Role of Internationalization and English as a Lingua Franca in English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education

A Critical Review of Hugo Bowles and Amanda C. Murphy, eds. 2020. English-Medium Instruction and the Internationalization of Universities. London: Palgrave Macmillan. v + 288 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-47859-9 and Kumiko Murata, ed. 2019. English-Medium Instruction from an English as a Lingua Franca Perspective: Exploring the Higher Education Context. London and New York: Routledge. vi + 289 pp. ISBN: 978-0-367-58795-6.

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  • Jennifer Ament Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.2.12

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Jennifer Ament, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Jennifer Ament is a part-time lecturer in the English and German Studies Department at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her main research interests are in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). She specifically investigates pragmatics, as well as factors such as context of learning, mainly EMI, and individual differences and how they interact with SLA outcomes.

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2021-12-23

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Ament, J. (2021). The Role of Internationalization and English as a Lingua Franca in English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education: A Critical Review of Hugo Bowles and Amanda C. Murphy, eds. 2020. English-Medium Instruction and the Internationalization of Universities. London: Palgrave Macmillan. v + 288 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-47859-9 and Kumiko Murata, ed. 2019. English-Medium Instruction from an English as a Lingua Franca Perspective: Exploring the Higher Education Context. London and New York: Routledge. vi + 289 pp. ISBN: 978-0-367-58795-6. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies, 43(2), 219–231. https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.2.12

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