English-Medium Instruction in Vietnamese Higher Education: Insights on Student-Centred Pedagogy (Routledge Research in Language Education)

English-Medium Instruction in Vietnamese Higher Education offers a theoretical and pedagogical foundation for understanding how English-medium instruction (EMI) is perceived and practised in Vietnam’s university classrooms across academic disciplines. Drawing on Bakhtin’s (1981) distinction between the literary genres of epic versus novel and Biglan’s (1973) differentiation between academic disciplines and their paradigms, the book combines theory with classroom observations and interviews with EMI lecturers and students to provide a nuanced interpretation of EMI teaching and learning in different academic disciplines.It highlights how the ‘novelisation’ of EMI courses and its pedagogical practices directly responds to the call for a shift from teacher-centred to student-centred pedagogy whereby students’ voices and their participation in the teaching process are given primary importance.It also examines two contrasting disciplines, Mathematics and Business, to show how disciplinary di