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James Mckinley

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Open access Oct 2026

“Does EMI Improve Students' English?” and Other Unanswerable Questions

Questions about EMI often begin from an apparently straightforward premise—does EMI improve students' English? This article argues that the question itself is the source of the main analytic problem. Using EMI as an exemplar of a wider problem in applied linguistics, we show why binary claims about language gain trav...

T. Hampson, James Mckinley, Ikuya Aizawa · 0 citations
Open access Oct 2026

Collaborative EMI

The rapid expansion of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education has generated a substantial body of research on student outcomes, language development, and classroom practice. Much of this work has focused on students’ English proficiency as a key determinant of success. Yet across EMI contexts, a consi...

James Mckinley, H. Rose · 1 citation

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