Exploring EMI students’ attitudes towards translanguaging and English language proficiency threshold across different disciplines

Dogan Yuksel; Kenan Dikilitas; Rhian Webb; Sibel Kaya

Exploring EMI students’ attitudes towards translanguaging and English language proficiency threshold across different disciplines

Dogan Yuksel ^[4] ; Kenan Dikilitas ^[1] ; Rhian Webb ^[2] ; Sibel Kaya ^[3]
1. [1] University of Bergen
  
  University of Bergen
  
  Noruega
2. [2] University of South Wales
  
  University of South Wales
  
  Pontypridd, Reino Unido
3. [3] University of Bedfordshire
  
  University of Bedfordshire
  
  GB.ENG.I1.00KC039, Reino Unido
4. [4] The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK;b Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey
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Localización: International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism, ISSN 1367-0050, Vol. 28, Nº. 4, 2025, págs. 507-523
Idioma: inglés
DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2024.2446561
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- The current study explores the discipline-based differences in terms of the relationship between English language proficiency and attitudes towards translanguaging in partial English Medium Instruction (EMI) programmes at a Turkish university. Quantitative data were collected from undergraduates in the Faculty of Engineering (n = 173) and the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (n = 172). Analyses revealed that English proficiency did not predict students’ general attitudes towards translanguaging and their attitudes towards the use of translanguaging in class in engineering programmes. However, proficiency was a significant predictor of both factors for the social science students. MANOVA results showed that the multivariate effect of proficiency was significant in social science programmes but not in engineering programmes. An apparent proficiency threshold was observed with social science students but not with engineering students, where attitudes towards the use of translanguaging decreased at the B2 proficiency level. The paper discusses the pedagogical implications of the relationship between language proficiency and attitudes towards translanguaging in different disciplines.
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