This book offers essential insights into the challenges and complexities surrounding the medium
of instruction (MOI) its impact on all languages and stakeholders in multilingual contexts
educational processes developments and outcomes. MOI has been a prominent topic in recent
debates on the role of languages in education in multilingual contexts partly because
prioritizing one language over others as the medium of instruction has a profound impact on all
languages and stakeholders in multilingual contexts. These include to name but a few
(language) teachers teacher educators students and policymakers as well as industries and
enterprises built around the needs and expectations of these stakeholders. This book presents
high-quality empirical research on education in multilingual societies. It highlights research
findings that in addition to providing descriptions of language learning development and use
in language contact and multilingual contexts will help shape future language education policy
and practices in multilingual societies.
