UTokyo English Academia

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1) What linguistic challenges do some students face in EMI settings? (Choose all that apply.)

a. Difficulty in taking notes from academic texts

b. Understanding teachers’ accents

c. Lack of speaking skills to conduct courses in English

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2) What did Aizawa and Rose’s (2019) study, which focused on one Japanese university, reveal?

a. Institutional policy goals trickled down the micro-level practice.

b. Courses that were advertised as EMI were conducted entirely in English.

c. There was no guidance on how much Japanese and English should be used in courses.

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3) The use of L1 in EMI settings…

a. can help students clarify or summarise the content.

b. may hinder students from building a rapport.

c. should be viewed as the last resort when it seems impossible to conduct a course in English.

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