Internationalization in Higher Education: the (dis)advantages and challenges in the context of a state university in the South of Brazil
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The internationalization of Higher Education is in the process of comprehension of its meaning in the research participants’ voices in the context of State University in the south of Brazil. The participants present the advantages, disadvantages and challenges of the internationalization process through the medium of English. The data of this study were gathered from interview and questionnaire based on the qualitative and quantitative research. The interpretation of the data shows the advantages, disadvantages and challenges of the internationalization through English as a medium of instruction (EMI) and the knowledge of the English language from the perspective of nonnative speaker of English. The complete results from this study can be found in the final report of a postdoctoral research conducted from May 2018 to July 2019 at Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil. This paper will present a synthesis about the advantages, disadvantages and challenges of the internationalization focused on EMI as a process.
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