Growing pains: graduate students grappling with English medium instruction in Kazakhstan
Tajik M.A. Abdul Manan S. Arvatu A.-C. Shegebayev M.
2024Routledge
Asian Englishes
2024#26Issue 1249 - 267 pp.
This study investigates graduate students’ experiences with English medium instruction (EMI) in Kazakhstan. The data reported here were collected through an online survey conducted in 10 public and private universities in Kazakhstan in March–July 2021. This survey received a total of 320 responses from graduate students with diverse age, gender, disciplinary, educational, and linguistic profiles. Through a combination of closed and open-ended questions, we aimed to determine how graduate students coped with EMI in their programs. We found that most respondents are struggling with various aspects of academic reading and writing. Low English proficiency is often cited as a cause of these struggles, but so are specific elements of academic writing. Inadequate socialization in English together with gaps in existing language and writing support are also seen as factors. Overall, the data confirm the existence of deep ecological tensions between policy aspirations and enactment conditions on the ground.
Academic writing , English medium instruction , Kazakhstan , medium of instruction , multilingual graduate students , trilingual policy
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Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
College of Humanities and Education, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Graduate School of Education
School of Sciences and Humanities
College of Humanities and Education
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