Danish university lecturers' attitudes towards English as the medium of instruction;Actitudes hacia la lengua inglesa como medio de instrucción por parte de los profesores de universidades danesas

Iberica

Volumn 22, Issue , 2011, Pages 13-33

  Jensen, Christian ^a   Thøgersen, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attitudes; English medium instruction; Internationalisation of higher education; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054046906     PISSN: 11397241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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