Alexander De Soete
Biographic Data
| ID | 6175252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander De Soete |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | De Soete |
| SIGNATURE | DE SOETE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5153-8845 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
AI literacy won’t save us
English-Medium Instruction in International Bio-Science Engineering Programs in Vietnam
This study analyzes how English-medium instruction (EMI) content lecturers in Vietnam navigate opportunities and challenges of incentivization, institutional support, and disciplinary autonomy in a context of transnational academic expansion. It reports on interview data with bio-engineering lecturers from five universities. Findings show that, despite the lecturers’ understanding of the institutional importance of prestigious international progr…
For the Dutch-speaking students, I will translate it
In the study of English-medium instruction in higher education, attention is being drawn to discrepancies between codified language policy and its enactment in classroom practice. This can be situated in a larger trend in language policy studies, in which researchers document and analyze language policy as an interactional concept, revolving around norms which guide language selection and use. In this context, I discuss how lecturers discretionar…
The EMI content lecturer as a street-level bureaucrat
The field of English as a Medium-of-Instruction (EMI) research in tertiary education is undergoing a context-specific turn, focusing attention on how the official medium of instruction interacts with local languages, as well as the multi-faceted interplay between national and/or institutional language policies and classroom practice. This article reports on findings from linguistic ethnographic fieldwork at a Belgian higher education institution:…
Professional Academic Development Over Here and Over There
This report develops interrelated perspectives on North–South collaboration, with a particular focus on joint PhD research. A specific – but perhaps atypical – case will be presented, in which the doctoral student is located and collects data in the Global North but is co-advised by supervisors from both Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) in the context of a strategic inter-institutional partnership b…
For the Dutch-speaking students, I will translate it
In the study of English-medium instruction in higher education, attention is being drawn to discrepancies between codified language policy and its enactment in classroom practice. This can be situated in a larger trend in language policy studies, in which researchers document and analyze language policy as an interactional concept, revolving around norms which guide language selection and use. In this context, I discuss how lecturers discretionar…
Professional Academic Development Over Here and Over There
This report develops interrelated perspectives on North–South collaboration, with a particular focus on joint PhD research. A specific – but perhaps atypical – case will be presented, in which the doctoral student is located and collects data in the Global North but is co-advised by supervisors from both Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) in the context of a strategic inter-institutional partnership b…
English-Medium Instruction in International Bio-Science Engineering Programs in Vietnam
This study analyzes how English-medium instruction (EMI) content lecturers in Vietnam navigate opportunities and challenges of incentivization, institutional support, and disciplinary autonomy in a context of transnational academic expansion. It reports on interview data with bio-engineering lecturers from five universities. Findings show that, despite the lecturers’ understanding of the institutional importance of prestigious international progr…
For the Dutch-speaking students, I will translate it
In the study of English-medium instruction in higher education, attention is being drawn to discrepancies between codified language policy and its enactment in classroom practice. This can be situated in a larger trend in language policy studies, in which researchers document and analyze language policy as an interactional concept, revolving around norms which guide language selection and use. In this context, I discuss how lecturers discretionar…
The EMI content lecturer as a street-level bureaucrat
The field of English as a Medium-of-Instruction (EMI) research in tertiary education is undergoing a context-specific turn, focusing attention on how the official medium of instruction interacts with local languages, as well as the multi-faceted interplay between national and/or institutional language policies and classroom practice. This article reports on findings from linguistic ethnographic fieldwork at a Belgian higher education institution:…
AI literacy won’t save us
Second Language Learning and Teaching (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works) · Discipline (2 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works) · English for academic purposes (2 works) · Language policy (2 works) · Medium of instruction (2 works)