Empowering EMI Educators for Effective Teaching: Tools and Tips (Routledge Focus on English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education)

Comprising experiential voices and practical tips, this reader-friendly guide is a companion for English-Medium Instruction (EMI) educators and teachers working in different educational settings around the world.

This volume addresses some common slippery slopes encountered by educators in EMI classrooms including cultural nuances, linguistic diversity, multilevel classrooms, strategic use of students’ first language (L1), and language learning strategies. Using insightful examples from real classrooms, this book offers a comprehensive resource that allows teachers to dig deeper, reflect and improve their practices. Each chapter includes necessary knowledge, reasons why this knowledge is important, effective practices, relevant classroom context, helpful materials and links, and questions to stimulate reflection. The formulaic pattern makes the text easily navigable – an important consideration for busy teachers. Theoretical issues, such as scaffolding, translanguaging, comprehensible input, multimodality, and strategy theory, are also addressed.

This book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and educators in the fields of EMI, classroom practice, curriculum design and applied linguistics.

Lydia Mitits is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

Marijana Prodanović is Associate Professor at the Language Centre of the Faculty of Arts and Education, Kauno kolegija Higher Education Institution (HEI), Lithuania.