Current Trends in EMI and Multimodality in Higher Education

Looking at both English Medium Instruction (EMI) and multimodality in higher education, this edited volume bridges the gap between the two contexts by offering various new insights into fundamentals in multilingual education, EMI discourse and current teaching practices in internationalised contexts.

Vicent Beltrán-Palanques is Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at the Universitat Jaume I, Spain. His research interests focus on ESP/EAP pedagogy, English-Medium Instruction in higher education, multimodal discourse analysis and multimodal literacy and pragmatics and interaction. He has published in international journals such as System, Journal of English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes, as well as in international publishing houses like Routledge, Brill and Springer.

Edgar Bernad-Mechó is Associate Professor at Universitat Jaume I, Spain. He specialises in the use of metadiscourse and multimodality in academic contexts and for science dissemination. He has published papers in journals like the Journal of English for Academic Purposes or Discourse Studies, and co-edited a special issue on multimodality for Ibérica. In his recent studies he has explored the modal density and coherence of YouTube videos for science dissemination and looked at the use of humor and other engagement strategies in science communication online.