A Method for Integrating Content into Academic Writing in a Business Management EMI Program

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English Mediated Instruction programs （EMI） are university programs where English is used as the language of instruction for academic subjects in areas where the native language is not English. For students to be successful in these programs it is necessary to acquire academic English skills to complete the various reading, writing, speaking, and listening tasks assigned to them in their content classes. Although academic English classes can help students in this regard, students do not always understand the link between these classes and their content courses, which can have a negative impact on motivation and performance in the academic English classroom. In the context of academic writing, this can be problematic when students are set the arduous task of learning how to create a formal academic research paper if topics are not broadly related to the themes of their academic discipline. Given these difficulties, this paper proposes a method to introduce students to the process of writing a research paper through the integration of content from taught-in-English academic subjects into academic writing classes. In trials of this method, results showed that students appreciated having content from their core subjects integrated into their academic writing classes, and benefited in terms of acquiring valuable research skills and increased familiarity with literature directly relevant to their program.