Challenges to Quality of English Medium Instruction Degree Programs in Taiwanese Universities and the Role of Local Accreditors: A Perspective of Non-English-Speaking Asian Country

Autor/inn/en	Hou, Angela Yung Chi; Morse, Robert; Chiang, Chung-Lin; Chen, Hui-Jung
Titel	Challenges to Quality of English Medium Instruction Degree Programs in Taiwanese Universities and the Role of Local Accreditors: A Perspective of Non-English-Speaking Asian Country
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Education Review, 14 (2013) 3, S.359-370 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1598-1037
DOI	10.1007/s12564-013-9267-8
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Language of Instruction; English; Academic Degrees; Higher Education; Asians; Quality Assurance; Accreditation (Institutions); Universities; Surveys; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; English language; Englisch; Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Qualitätssicherung; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; University; Universität; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Qualitative Forschung; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	As the numbers of international students have grown, higher education institutions in Asia have offered a growing range of English medium instruction (EMI) degree programs. But Asian governments and higher education institutions have not thought deeply about how to ensure quality of English medium instruction degree programs. At the same time, their accreditors have not been fully aware of how to establish an external quality assurance mechanism to measure the quality of these programs. This study's main purpose is to put the quality of the EMI degree programs of Taiwan higher education institutions into the perspective of the Taiwan's institutions and one local Taiwan accreditor. With both qualitative and quantitative approaches, a survey targeting Taiwan's colleges and universities and interviews of Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan international reviewers and Asian higher education experts are used to examine the challenges of EMI implementation in Taiwan universities and the role of local accreditors playing in reviewing the English medium instruction degree programs. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10