Language Use in English-Medium Instruction at University: International Perspectives on Teacher Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367681784 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 222 str.

David Lasagabaster; Aintzane Doiz

Opis

This collection brings together insights from research and scholars’ practical experience on the role of language and language use in teacher practices at the university level in EMI contexts, offering global perspectives across diverse educational settings.

Spis treści

Introduction: Foregrounding language issues in English-medium instruction courses  David Lasagabaster and Aintzane Doiz  1. An exploratory analysis of Language Related Episodes (LREs) in a Brazilian EMI context: Lecturers’ and students’ perspectives Ron Martinez, Paola Machado and Candida Palma  2. Analysing EMI teachers’ and students’ talk about language and language use  Aintzane Doiz and David Lasagabaster  3. EMI teachers’ use of Interactive metadiscourse in lecture organisation and knowledge construction  Lei Zhang and Yuen Yi Lo  4. Strategies to Enhance Comprehension in EMI Lectures: Examples from the Italian Context  Francesca Costa and Cristina Mariotti  5. EMI materials in online initial English language teacher education  Darío Luis Banegas and Graciela Manzur Busleimán  6. Pronunciation in EMI: a preliminary study of Spanish university students’ intelligibility and comprehensibility  Esther Gómez-Lacabex and Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto  7. Students’ language-related challenges of studying through English: What EMI teachers can do  Heath Rose  8. Challenges of English-medium higher education: The first-year experience in Hong Kong revisited a decade later  Christopher Shepard and Bruce Morrison  9. Implementing EMI in higher education: language use, language research and professional development  Victor Pavón Vázquez and Maria Ellison  10. Epilogue: Disciplinary literacies as a nexus for content and language teacher practice  Hans Malmström and Diane Pecorari