Aizawa, I; McKinley, J; (2020) EMI challenges in Japan’s internationalisation of Higher Education. In: Bowles, H and Murphy, A, (eds.) English-Medium Instruction and the Internationalization of Universities. (pp. 27-48). Palgrave MacMillan: London, UK.

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Abstract

This chapter presents a literature-based overview of the potential challenges faced by higher education (HE) stakeholders (universities, faculty members and students) in Japan after the introduction of the Top Global University Project (TGUP) at their institutions. Despite the expansion of EMI, some recent studies (Rose and McKinley, Japan’s English-medium instruction initiatives and the globalisation of higher education. Higher Education, 75(1), 111–129, 2018; Aizawa and Rose, An analysis of Japan’s English as medium of instruction initiatives within higher education: the gap between meso-level policy and micro-level practice. Higher Education, 77(6), 1125–1142, 2019) have revealed that the TGUP is interpreted inconsistently. Substantial differences have been found in the understanding of different HE stakeholders when disseminated from the macro (government), meso (institution) to micro (classroom) level. To discuss potential implementation challenges, the chapter introduces recent Japanese government policy driving EMI at universities (i.e. TGUP), the implications for language planning, and how the policy is being put into practice at these universities at the different levels of policy.

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