La enseñanza de contenido en inglés en universidades españolasuna revisión sistemática

  1. Alberto Fernández-Costales 1
  2. David Lasagabaster Herrarte 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

  2. 2 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Journal:
Revista de educación

ISSN: 0034-8082

Year of publication: 2024

Issue Title: La educación bilingüe en España : una mirada crítica acerca de las tendencias actuales

Issue: 403

Pages: 259-290

Type: Article

DOI: 10.4438/1988-592X-RE-2024-403-612 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

EMI (English-medium instruction) has mushroomed in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Spain since 2007, when universities joined the European Higher Education Area. Spanish institutions followed the example of their European counterparts, and nowadays most HEIs offer English-taught programmes, aiming to increase their presence in the global market, attract international students and teaching staff, and climb up rankings of higher education. The rapid development of EMI has caught theoretical frameworks and research studies off-guard. Therefore, a systematic review of the investigation on EMI in Spanish higher education institutions will contribute to identifying the most outstanding challenges for stakeholders and HEIs in this particular context. In order to find out the most significant findings in the field, the current paper puts forward a systematic review of studies analysing EMI in Spanish universities in the last decade (2013-2022). For this purpose, studies indexed in three most renowned databases – Web of Science, ERIC, and Scopus – were carefully reviewed. Several clusters of terms associated with EMI were used. The current review provides a detailed picture of the research undertaken on EMI in the Spanish context and the results achieved hitherto, while it will also help to pinpoint which issues or research lines have been neglected.

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