TLHE project 2025: Jonathan Hendrickx, Department of Communication
ABSTRACT
In recent years, KU’s academic
staff has seen a wave of internationalisation as scholars from different
countries were hired - I myself am an example of this. I teach courses to BA
and MA students in English, but wondered how Danish-language students feel
about this. I carried out an anonymous survey which was filled out by 16
students, who reflected quantitatively and qualitatively about their feeling
of learning in a language that isn’t their first one. Overall findings reveal
satisfaction with the share of English-language classes across study programs
and that the language does not make learning more difficult. However, it was
stressed repeatedly that the teacher and their enthusiasm matters more to
students than the language in which they are being taught.