Further Research/Contacts

This project also collected data where available on whether English is taught as a subject or is used as a medium of instruction (MOI), how English described or what rationale is provided in policy documents for teaching it (e.g. English as a foreign language, English as a global or international language, English as important for a global workforce), and what type of assessment methods are used (e.g. process assessment, completion tests, entry tests). We found that this information while prominent for many countries was totally absent in many others. For these reasons, we have not provided any global visualizations of such data here. But it exists in the database for other researches to pursue further.

For more detailed, peer-reviewed analysis see: Peter Ives, “Language Regimes, Global English, and National Public Education,” in States of Language Policy: Theorizing Continuity and Change, Ericka Albaugh, Linda Cardinal, Rémi Léger, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2024

Contact and access to the database:

If you are a researcher and would like access to the spreadsheet with all the data collected, please email me, p.ives@uwinnipeg.ca, with a brief explanation of what you wish to use the data for. We also welcome any feedback.