English-medium instruction (EMI) is a major pedagogical trend, reflecting and shaping the status of English as a global language. To offer new insights into the linguistic experience of students in EMI in higher education, our project focuses on creating and analysing a large database of reading and writing from students at eight universities in Austria, China, Thailand, Italy and the UK.
The corpus can be used to conduct large-scale quantitative analysis to describe patterns in EMI language use across different academic disciplines, providing an empirical basis for research-informed educational policies that seek to address students’ linguistic needs in this educational context. The corpus will be made available also to other researchers and practitioners towards the end of 2025.
The project was funded by the British Council as part of the Future of English research scheme.
