EMI in North Africa

This chapter considers EMI in the north African region, which has witnessed rapid changes in EMI implementation in the last two decades due to the assumption that English is the international language and that EMI instruction would improve students’ English proficiency and provide them with better opportunities in today’s competitive job market (Salama, 2023). However, this rapid EMI adoption in many cases has not been grounded in theory or successful pedagogical practice, and empirical research that provides evidence of EMI effectiveness in this context is still lacking. Thus, this chapter presents a study conducted in one Egyptian university to examine teachers’ and students’ views of its significance and practice in the classroom with the aim of exploring successful practices for EMI implementation in this context. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.