Professional Development for EMI Faculty in Mexico: The Case of Bilingual, International, and Sustainable Universities

ISBN-13: 9780367350369 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 62 str.

Myrna Escalona Sibaja

Opis

Despite Mexico’s implementation of a bilingual model in its tertiary education programmes, this book is the first contribution to knowledge regarding EMI in Mexico.

Recenzje

'This book depicts a glimpse of EMI practice in Mexico’s higher education institutions, which can enrich the contents of EMI researches in the world’s non-English-speaking countries, especially in Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America.' -  Zhiguo Zhang, College of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Maritime University, China.

Spis treści

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
CHAPTER 1  INTRODUCTION:  MEXICO, ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMMES, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EMI.
CHAPTER 2  A PILOT STUDY
CHAPTER 3  A CASE STUDY
CHAPTER 4  THE FINDINGS
CHAPTER 5  DISCUSSION, RECOMMENDATIONS, AND FURTHER RESEARCH
Appendix A: Current BIS technological and polytechnic universities spread in Mexico
Appendix B: English language proficiency considered by the CEFR in its 2001 volume
Appendix C: Guidelines for the Implementation of the BIS Model
Appendix D: The sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP) model
Appendix E: Training opportunities offered by the UTR since 2013
Glossary
Reference
Index

O autorze

Myrna Escalona Sibaja is a Teacher Trainer at Grupo Educare and has been an EMI coach and teacher in a variety of institutions such as Instituto Santiago and Instituto Universitario de Tecnología y Cultura (IUTC), in Mexico.