Join the Sixth Arqus Webinar on English as a Medium of Instruction for This Academic Year

The Arqus Alliance announces the sixth event in its English-Medium Instruction (EMI) Seminar Series for 2024–2025, run by Maynooth University titled “Qualitative Insights into EMI Students’ Experiences: Affective Factors and Classroom Interaction in a Foreign Language”.

This webinar, delivered by Dr Marta Kopinska, Assistant Professor in English and applied linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), will take place online on Thursday, 15 May 2025, from 12 noon to 1 pm (CEST). The webinar will explore affective factors such as motivation and anxiety that might influence classroom interaction in EMI. Drawing on her own and her colleagues’ recent qualitative research, she will explore factors that lie behind EMI students’ (de)motivation to interact in class, as well as EMI-related anxiety. She will also discuss some qualitative methods that were used to investigate these factors in the EMI setting and trace them over time.

About the speaker

Dr Marta Kopinska specialises in English for Specific Purpose courses for undergraduate students who are studying engineering or business management and administration. Her recent work combines qualitative and quantitative methodologies and focuses on affective factors in English-medium instruction in Spanish higher education institutions. Dr Kopinska is also a member of the Language and Speech research group, a multidisciplinary research group that investigates a variety of factors involved in language acquisition in multilingual settings.

Registration for online participation is required. For registration, click here.