Using English as the language of instruction in higher education has a marked negative impact on learning outcomes when it is not the students' first language, according to a new study from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
taking a course in English should learn just as well as a student studying in their first language. But a new study now casts doubt on this assumption.
When the researchers compared the number of questions answered correctly in the two versions of the course it emerged that those who studied in Swedish gave the"It's important to remember that the only difference here is the language of instruction.
"It is important to remember that a single study should not be used as the basis for a radical overhaul of the language or teaching policy in
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