English medium instruction through the lens of a content teacher: challenges, adjustments, and opportunities

Abstract

The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Complutense University of Madrid decided to introduce English as a medium of instruction with the implementation of the new four-year degrees adapted to the Bologna Declaration and the European Area for Higher Education in the academic year 2009–2010. Since then the students have had the opportunity to follow the Economics and Business Administration degrees fully in English. Some comments on the challenges and rewards, expected and unexpected, found in Statistics and Decision Analysis courses (first and third year, respectively, Business Administration Degree) are presented. The present chapter shows the impact and the implications, from the point of view of a content teacher, of the move towards the English medium instruction in a non-Anglophone country like Spain.