EMI Classroom Communication: A Corpus-Based Approach

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 interviews with EMI lecturers from five universities in Croatia, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain.

The book also offers insights into lecturers’ engagement with students in English, which is their second language, as well as their perception of differences between EMI and first-language-medium instruction (L1MI). Finally, the volume provides readers with corpus-based analysis of teachers’ oral ability profiles, as a basis for the identification of communicational challenges and provision of language support.

The book will be of interest to scholars interested in EMI in higher education, and postgraduate students in applied linguistics and TESOL programs. It will also be relevant to teachers who are involved in EMI provision, teacher trainers who design support programs for EMI teachers, and policymakers who establish language-in-education policies for EMI.

Slobodanka Dimova is a Professor of Multilingualism and Language Testing at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA), and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of English-Medium Instruction. Her current research interests include policies and practices related to internationalization and implementation of English-medium instruction (EMI) programs at non-English-dominant universities, performance-based testing, and use of technology in language testing and assessment.

Joyce Kling is a Senior Lecturer at Lund University where she teaches second language teacher education courses to pre-service and in-service teachers. She served as president of TESOL International Association 2022-23, and presently continues as a member of the association’s Executive Committee. She is a member of the international advisory board for the Routledge Studies in English-Medium Instruction book series. Her research interests include the international classroom and English-medium instruction (EMI), language teacher cognition, and language testing and assessment.

Branka Drljača Margic is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Turin, Italy. Her research interests include English-medium instruction (EMI), English as a global language, and language attitudes. Branka is co-author of the books Uncovering English-medium instruction: Glocal issues in higher education (2017) and Engleski kao jezik visokoskolske nastave: kritički pristup jezičnoj politici i praksi (2022). She has developed and runs the Language support for teachers in EMI lifelong learning programme.