Xiao Pan
Loudi Normal College for Preschool Education, Loudi, Hunan, 417500, China.
*Corresponding author: Xiao Pan
Abstract
With globalization and neoliberalism over the past few decades, English medium instruction (EMI) has been adopted widely in higher education worldwide. To participate more competitively in the new era of knowledge globalization and to realize the goal of national rejuvenation, the Chinese central and regional governments have implemented a series of policies and strategies to promote the internationalization of its higher education by adopting an EMI language policy in tertiary level education. The governments also encourage to establish several high-level Sino–Foreign cooperative projects (Huang, 2016; Perrin, 2017). The Sino-foreign cooperative activities can take various forms (Wihlborg & Robson, 2018; Zhang, 2018). Among them, transnational higher education (TNHE) is a key component of the internationalization of the higher education sector in China. However, Chinese scholars mainly focused on the challenge and the development of this new form of cooperative education and associated it with the social level, but studies on the influence of such a complex multilingual and multicultural context on individuals are limited (Huang, 2016).
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How to cite this paper
Developing Students' Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC) in English Medium Instruction (EMI) Programmes in a Transnational University in China
How to cite this paper: Xiao Pan. (2022). Developing Students' Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC) in English Medium Instruction (EMI) Programmes in a Transnational University in China. The Educational Review, USA, 6(9), 489-492.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/er.2022.09.007