ABSTRACT
This article aims to identify trends in studies on English as a medium of instruction (EMI) in Brazil and suggest a research agenda that addresses issues related to the adoption of English as one of the languages used in higher education, with a view to internationalization. In order to know how EMI has been addressed in Brazilian publications, we conducted a qualitative meta synthesis (MATHEUS, 2009), comprising studies published between 2010 and 2020. In terms of design, the studies were classified as exploratory, descriptive or explanatory-speculative (GIL, 2019). The studies were classified as within a reconfiguration approach, if they indicated critical bias, or accommodation, when they proposed only improvements in the EMI policy (PARK; WEE, 2012). After content analysis of the texts, the results reveal that exploratory research stands out in relation to other perspectives and there is a higher number of studies within a reconfiguration approach, indicating that the academic community has questioned and problematized EMI in the Brazilian context, using different perspectives for this purpose, such as English as a lingua franca; decolonial studies; multimodal perspective; critical internationalization, among others.
Keywords:
English as a medium of instruction; research; meta synthesis.