Aalto University, 2012. — 244 p.Internationalization is one of the strategic goals of universities and other higher education institutions in Finland. This tends to be transferred to English-medium instruction (EMI) and English degree programs. This "Anglicization has raised concerns and discussion despite its perceived benefits.
The aim of this study was to investigate an international Master’s Program in the field of engineering and to explore students’ perceptions of lectures and their comprehension within this Master’s Program. These lectures were further examined in order to shed light on what linguistic features used in English as a lingua franca (ELF) lecturing influence students’ perceptions.
This exploratory, descriptive case study takes a phasal approach to obtain a holistic view on this Master’s Program. The findings of the study are based on authentic data: video-recorded lecture material, their transcriptions, and surveys. These surveys contain lecture evaluations provided by the students immediately after attending them. Guided by the student evaluations, an analysis based on genre analysis and discourse analysis was conducted to locate the linguistic differences of these lectures.
