Full Description
Tsui and Macaro's volume addresses a central issue in English Medium Instruction (EMI) and draws on research and practice from both content teachers and language specialists.
It covers a range of academic disciplines and contains contributions by internationally recognized researchers and practitioners in EMI, as well as covering both the theoretical orientations and pedagogical practices of EMI. The chapters provide an in-depth account of how language needs to be integrated into the various academic subjects being taught through the medium of English in higher education in non-anglophone countries. Its contributors are either second language specialists or teachers directly responsible for teaching in the different disciplines. The book calls for much greater collaboration between these actors and for a sense of shared responsibility for ensuring that English Medium Instruction, a phenomenon that is now established worldwide, is successful for all students.
It will be of interest to students, researchers and teachers of English Medium Instruction in both secondary and higher education.
Contents
1. Language Issues: Theoretical Orientations and Approaches in EMI Content Teaching and Learning Research 2. First Language Use and Language Learner Strategies in EMI Higher Education 3. Linguistic Mediation of Learning Processes in Content Classrooms 4. Disciplinary Literacy and English-Medium Instruction: Multilingual, Multimodal and Multifunctional Considerations 5. Similarities and Differences in EMI Disciplinary Knowledge Construction 6. Disciplinary Teachers and Content: Language Impacts 7. Teachers' Language Awareness and Language Related Episodes (LRE) Revisited: The Case of EMI in Computer Engineering 8. Language and Conceptual Change: The case of teaching ethnomusicology through EMI 9. Pedagogical considerations in EMI: Exploring the different disciplines 10. Coping With the Language Challenges of English-medium Disciplinary Textbooks 11. Conclusion: The multiple dimensions of English Medium Instruction
