English Writing Competence and EMI Performance: Student and Expert Perceptions of Academic Writing in EMI
Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: University English Medium Instruction (EMI) programmes place heavy demands on students' writing skills, yet academic writing support is rarely provided.This paper investigates the English academic writing competences of a group of Economics students taking EMI courses at a Spanish university from a triple perspective: we compare how these students rated their own writing competence, and how content teachers and language experts rated the texts they produced.After examining whether the students' self-assessment correlated with the content grade awarded by the course teacher and with evaluations of their work by language experts, we found major discrepancies between students' self-reported confidence in their writing ability and their actual performance as assessed independently.Importantly, the quality of students' writing was significantly correlated with their overall content score.Our conclusions suggest that students would benefit from academic writing training if it could be tailored to meet specific needs that arise in the university context.Content teachers should collaborate with language experts to design writing programmes focused on course requirements.
Source: ESP Today
Authors: Hanne Roothooft, Ruth Breeze, Marcel Meyer
Institution: Universidad de Navarra
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405129829