Worse results and more drop-outs recorded when teaching is in English, Swedish study finds

Swedish students taking a course in which the language of instruction was English performed significantly worse.

Students who took the Swedish version of the course gave the correct answers to 73 percent more questions in the test.

25 percent more students dropped out of the English -language course and here too the difference between the two versions was statistically significant.

al, English -medium instruction and impact on academic performance: a randomized control study, Applied Linguistics Review ( 2023 ). DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2022-0093 Provided by Chalmers University of Technology .