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As EMI is expanding globally, studies on the satisfaction with EMI are increasing rapidly. While researchers in SLA routinely apply CB-SEM to a small sized, non-normal data in their EMI satisfaction studies or confine themselves to descriptive statistics of each item in their questionnaires, such practice could suffer from many methodological pitfalls. This study aims to introduce PLS-SEM as an alternative to CB-SEM by applying PLS-SEM to a data set on EMI satisfaction, illustrating the analysis processes and comparing the outputs from CB-SEM. The results show that PLS-SEM could be a compensatory alternative to CB-SEM. Further analyses of the survey data indicate that students would evaluate instructor’s English use primarily in relation to their assessment-related activities and that the overall satisfaction of EMI could be heavily dependent on the instructor’s lesson preparation and teaching skills in class.