EMI-cum-acceleration policy in the contemporary transnational HE market

Experiences of Saudi engineering students

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21458337
AutoresOsman Z Barnawi (0000-0002-0070-3473, Royal Commission for Yanbu Colleges and Institutes, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume44
Fascículo2
Páginas208-228
Data de publicação2021-07-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Review of Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0155-0640 • E-ISSN: 1833-7139
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/aral.20092.bar
OpenAlexW3179028499
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas28

Conceptualizing EMI-cum-acceleration policy in a transnational HE market as the regulation and institutionalization of language practices through a chronometrical approach to time for the sake of global economic competition and social mobility, this qualitative case study explores the experiences and enactments of such a policy by six engineering students at Manar University (a pseudonym) in Saudi Arabia. The data were gathered from analysis of policy documents, individual interviews, and a group interview. The findings reveal that the ways in which each student negotiates, resists, and desires such a policy suggest that an individual has some temporal resources and autonomy to make sense of “the acceleration experience” within the broader “structural forces of acceleration” ( Vostal, 2016 , p. 117) created at the university. It was also found that students are positioned in a double-bind-between the capitalist logic of accumulation and competition (speed), and the democratic value of equity in the EMI program

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