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Review and Final Thoughts: The Future of English-Medium Instruction in Turkey

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English as the Medium of Instruction in Turkish Higher Education

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This chapter brings together and highlights the critical perspectives raised in the previous chapters and seeks to provide an insight into the future of EMI research in the Turkish higher education context. Reference is also made to how awareness can be raised about the strategies and tools needed to improve EMI at the tertiary level in Turkey, particularly in relation to the fact that the implementation of EMI is increasingly widespread, giving rise to new issues which have remained beyond the scope of the current volume. By raising the issues likely to surround EMI in the future, we aim to offer a window for researchers and practitioners from Turkey and other parts of the world to see different aspects of EMI, such as curriculum design, lesson planning, discourse features, as well as teacher-student classroom interaction. We also attempt to identify those issues and challenges that may be involved in EMI literature in relation to such concepts as central linguistics, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, socio-culture, in addition to language policy and planning.

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Kirkgöz, Y., Karakaş, A. (2022). Review and Final Thoughts: The Future of English-Medium Instruction in Turkey. In: Kirkgöz, Y., Karakaş, A. (eds) English as the Medium of Instruction in Turkish Higher Education. Multilingual Education, vol 40. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88597-7_15

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