Internationalization at Home Policies: Local students’ attitudes to international students and EMI in an Italian university

This study explores the linguistic affordances that International Students (ISs) and English Medium Instruction (EMI) bring in local Internationalisation at Home (IaH) contexts. Based on a large student survey, results show that despite local students’ positive attitudes about ISs and EMI and their conviction that they can improve their foreign language skills, only a few students are truly benefiting from them. The study suggests that for a successful implementation of IaH, English is probably not the only language to consider, and that the mere presence of ISs and EMI does not guarantee internationalisation for all non-mobile students.