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Zhang, Lawrence Jun and Anne Li Jiang. 2019. Chinese students’ perceptions of English learning affordances and their agency in an English-medium instruction classroom context. Language & Education 33 (4) : 322–339.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Despite a substantial body of research exploring diverse aspects of English-medium-instruction (EMI), there is a paucity of research on students’ perceptions of EMI classroom activities and teachers’ instructional language use as English learning affordances, the manifestation of their agency and its mediating factors. Drawing on the ecological concepts of ‘affordance’ and ‘agency’, this inquiry seeks to fill this void using a mixed methods design. One EMI teacher and 134 students in a Chinese university were involved as participants.