TY - JOUR
T1 - Students’ Experiences of English-Medium Instruction at the Postgraduate Level
T2 - Challenges and Sustainable Support for Success
AU - Moorhouse, Benjamin Luke
AU - Wan, Yuwei
N1 - Publisher copyright:
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Funding Information:
GM receives research funding from Astellas Inc and SymBio Pharmaceuticals Limited. MH receives research funding from Incyte. AS is the site principal investigator of clinical trials for genome editing of sickle cell disease sponsored by Vertex Pharmaceuticals/CRISPR Therapeutics (clinicaltrials gov. Identifier: NCT03745287) and Novartis (clinicaltrials gov. Identifier: NCT04443907). The industry sponsors provide funding for the clinical trial, which includes salary support paid to AS institution. AS has received consultant fee from Spotlight Therapeutics, Medexus Inc. and Vertex Pharmaceuticals. AS has also received research funding from CRISPR Therapeutics and honoraria from Vindico Medical Education. JH receives research funding from Global Blood Therapeutics and consultancy fees from Global Blood Therapeutics, Forma Therapeutics and bluebird bio. SB receives grant support from the American Society of Hematology.
PY - 2023/2/2
Y1 - 2023/2/2
N2 - More and more students are exploring overseas destinations and English-Medium Instruction (EMI) environments for their postgraduate studies. While it is known that students can often struggle in an EMI environment, the challenges faced by postgraduate students, and the support they receive or need, are not fully understood. By adopting a two-stage qualitative sequential data collection approach, this study explored the experiences and perceptions of full-time postgraduate students from Mainland China studying in a one-year Master of Education programme at a Hong Kong university during their first semester. Data were collected through an online survey (N = 73) and three in-depth group interviews (N = 12). The analysis of data offered a holistic understanding of the students’ challenges, needs, and struggles. The findings provide suggestions for support that teachers and programmes can provide to postgraduate students, as well as student self-help support strategies. Several sustainable support strategies are proposed to assist students in adjusting and succeeding in the EMI context at the postgraduate level.
AB - More and more students are exploring overseas destinations and English-Medium Instruction (EMI) environments for their postgraduate studies. While it is known that students can often struggle in an EMI environment, the challenges faced by postgraduate students, and the support they receive or need, are not fully understood. By adopting a two-stage qualitative sequential data collection approach, this study explored the experiences and perceptions of full-time postgraduate students from Mainland China studying in a one-year Master of Education programme at a Hong Kong university during their first semester. Data were collected through an online survey (N = 73) and three in-depth group interviews (N = 12). The analysis of data offered a holistic understanding of the students’ challenges, needs, and struggles. The findings provide suggestions for support that teachers and programmes can provide to postgraduate students, as well as student self-help support strategies. Several sustainable support strategies are proposed to assist students in adjusting and succeeding in the EMI context at the postgraduate level.
KW - EMI challenges
KW - EMI sustainable support strategies
KW - English-Medium Instruction (EMI)
KW - Hong Kong
KW - Mainland China
KW - higher education
KW - postgraduate students
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/4
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U2 - 10.3390/su15043243
DO - 10.3390/su15043243
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 15
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
IS - 4
M1 - 3243
ER -