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‘You are missing a note’

English-medium instruction in music master classes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2019

Yuanjun Dai  and
Zhiwei Wu
Yuanjun Dai
Affiliation:
Jinan University Xinghai Conservatory of Music
Zhiwei Wu*
Affiliation:
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
*
Email: patrickwzw@hotmail.com
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A growing number of countries internationalise their curriculum by switching to English-medium Instruction (EMI). This strategy is particularly popular in China, where more and more universities offer English-medium courses to raise their international profile (Macaro et al., 2018). Sociolinguistic accounts have been reported on how EMI is perceived and enacted in China as a whole (Hu & Lei, 2014; Fang, 2018), or in particular disciplines, such as the humanities, business (Botha, 2014), medicine and surgery (Botha, 2016). However, relatively little attention has been given to EMI in China's music education, where English is used differently from the educational settings previously studied. In music education, instructors invariably use both verbal and non-verbal communication to explain and demonstrate a musical technique (Long et al., 2012).

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English Today , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 58 - 64
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