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English is increasingly used as a global language of instruction in higher education, known as English Medium Instruction or EMI, according to ain 2022. An important starting point for EMI is that the language of instruction must not affect students’ learning quality. The aim is that a student taking a course in English should learn just as well as a student studying in their first language. But a new study now casts doubt on this assumption.
“Our study is unusual in this field since the groups were assigned on a completely random basis. This means that the only influencing factor was the language of instruction, and we were surprised by the results,” says Hans Malmström, Professor at the Department of Communication and Learning in Science atMore test questions answered correctly in the Swedish course
“It’s important to remember that the only difference here is the language of instruction. The fact that the students on the Swedish-language course performed significantly better indicates that the use of English as the language of instruction can have a negative impact on learning under certain circumstances,” says Olle Bälter, Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and one of the researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
The study now raises issues about the advantages and disadvantages of having such a large proportion of teaching at universities and higher education institutions in English, something that is common in Sweden as well as in other countries where English is not the first language for the majority of the population.
Students who took the Swedish version of the course gave correct answers to 73 percent more test questions on average.
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