1st Edition

EMI Classroom Communication A Corpus-Based Approach

208 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Examining English medium instruction (EMI) through a corpus-based approach, this volume offers a critical inquiry into the use of different linguistic and pedagogical strategies in the EMI classroom. It explores aspects of content lecturers’ language use, pedagogy, and intercultural communicative competence by drawing on the findings obtained from EMI lecture corpus analysis and post-observation... Read more

Introduction: Corpora in EMI research Slobodanka Dimova, Branka Drljača Margić and Joyce Kling.  1. CEFR profiles for oral English certification of lecturers in higher education Slobodanka Dimova and Joyce Kling.  2. (Dis)fluency and pronunciation accuracy in EMI lectures Xavier Martin-Rubió and Irati Diert-Boté.  3. Mediation strategies in EMI: Facilitating access to knowledge through language Alessandra Molino.   4. "Nothing beats the real thing": The use of examples in EMI lectures Claudio Bendazzoli.  5. Episodes of code-switching in EMI across European contexts Stefania Cicillini.  6. Real examples of ICC practices in the EMI classroom Denise McAllister-Wylie and Irena Vodopija-Krstanović.  7. EMI vs L1MI: Lecturers’ perceptions and practices Branka Drljača Margić and Irena Vodopija-Krstanović.

Biography

Slobodanka Dimova is a Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has a PhD from Purdue University, United States.

Joyce Kling is a Senior Lecturer at Lund University, Sweden. She has a PhD from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Branka Drljača Margić is a Professor at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. She has a PhD from the University of Zagreb, Croatia.