Join the Third Arqus Seminar on English-Medium Instruction
The Arqus Alliance is pleased to announce the third event in its English-Medium Instruction (EMI) Seminar Series for 2024–25 run by Maynooth University titled “Researching English-medium higher education and the ROAD-MAPPING framework: latest development(s)”
The seminar, delivered by Prof Emma Dafouz and Prof Ute Smit, will take place online on Thursday, 20 February 2025, from 12 noon to 1 pm (CET). This seminar will focus on the ROAD-MAPPING framework and how it allows for a comprehensive and dynamic analysis of English-medium education in multilingual university settings from the perspective of inclusive internationalisation.
Participants will gain insights into the potential of this framework for examining EMI contexts within and across settings and diverse higher education institutions as those included in European university alliances.
About the speakers
Emma Dafouz is a full professor in the Department of English Studies at Complutense University of Madrid. Since the 2000s her research has dealt with understanding the roles of language in education, both in Bilingual/CLIL programs and in English-medium higher education. She served as advisor for curricular internationalization at her university from 2014-19 and developed the Plan for Internationalization. She has published extensively on English-medium education. Her most recent books are ROADMAPPING English-Medium Education in the Internationalised University, co-authored with Ute Smit (Palgrave) and Researching English-Medium Education (Routledge).
Ute Smit is professor of English linguistics and Circle U. academic chair (Multilingualism, Interculturality, Language) at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses on English and multilingualism in and around the classroom in various educational settings. Her publications deal with EME (English-medium education), CLIL (content and language integrated learning), ELF (English as a lingua franca) and multilingualism in classroom discourse, language policies and practices. Ute is a member of various international projects and presently the chair of the ICLHE (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education) Association.
Registration for online participation is required. REGISTER HERE.