Researching English-Medium Higher Education: Diverse Applications and Critical Evaluations of the Road-Mapping Framework Tension-Filled English at the Multilingual University: A Bakhtinian Perspective: Emma Dafouz and Ute Smit (eds): Researching English-Medium Higher Education: Diverse Applications and Critical Evaluations of the Road-Mapping Framework Routledge, 2023. Maria Kuteeva: Tension-Filled English at the Multilingual University: A Bakhtinian Perspective Multilingual Matters, 2023.

The rise of English in multilingual universities emerges among a wide range of topics for the socio- and applied linguist to study and explore. Yet foregrounding English in universities, especially when considering the ongoing debate surrounding translingualism, calls for innovative and flexible frameworks. Two such frameworks are developed in the two books here reviewed.

‘Researching English-Medium Higher Education: Diverse Applications and Critical Evaluations of the ROAD-MAPPING framework’ is a multi-faceted and insightful edited volume that seeks to do justice to the complexity of English Medium higher education. Edited and introduced by Emma Dafouz and Ute Smit—the originators of the ROAD-MAPPING framework—the volume includes studies that employ the framework to investigate English medium education in a wide range of geopolitical, institutional, and disciplinary contexts. While ROAD-MAPPING has already been applied to inform language research, policy, and practice, this volume pushes the framework even further towards flexibility and dynamism in methods, theories, and geographical foci.