Building the Arqus EMI Community of Practice: New Series of Seminars
This seminar series, organised and facilitated by Maynooth University, invites researchers and practitioners across Arqus Alliance universities, who are already engaging or have just started the process of engagement with English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in their institutions. The series is seen as an interactive and supportive forum for practitioners and researchers to engage in regular dialogue to exchange experiences of EMI and become familiar with ongoing research in the field, with a view to improving practices and engagement with EMI across the Alliance.
In each 90-minute session, participants will have the opportunity to practice various language skills and gather new inspiration for their teaching curriculum. Together we will look at elements of academic writing such as cohesive devices and discourse markers and will also address the challenges posed by vocabulary and grammar. Participants will have the opportunity to improve their overall fluency while practicing interactive communication skills.
Arqus EMI Community of Practice: Starts 16 November (once a month on Thursday at 1 pm (CET)). Ends 6 June 2024. Register here to participate in the series.
We look forward to the stimulating presentations and discussions through the course of the series and hope you can join us as we build our community of practice!
Schedule
All of the sessions take place on Thursday and will start at 1 pm (CET).
16 November 2023
Navigating disparate knowledge systems and academic cultures in EMI: whose responsibility is it?
Clive W. Earls (Maynooth University)
14 December 2023
Intercultural competence in EMI settings: lecturers’ perceptions and training needs
Marcelo Kremer (Universidade de Aveiro)
18 January 2024
Linguistic diversity in an EMI classroom: implications for teaching
Yulia Kharchenko (Macquarie University)
15 February 2024
TBC
Maria Filomena Pereira Rodrigues Louro (Minho University)
14 March 2024
English-medium instruction (EMI) – the perspective of the English language teacher
Anna Czura (Wrocław University)
18 April 2024
The continuous struggle against language barriers: being a non-native English-speaking researcher in Academia
Derya Özkaya Öztürk (Universität Graz)
16 May 2024
‘The long and winding road’ – a talk about the journey from teaching single courses in English to developing and conducting an international English language sport psychology master’s program at Leipzig University
Anne-Marie Elbe (Universität Leipzig)
6 June 2024
The process of introducing teaching in English: from zero to a bilingual bachelor’s degree
Juan Antonio Lacomba Arias and Pilar Ibarrondo Dávila (Universidad de Granada)