In English Medium Instruction you can walk and chew gum

In English Medium Instruction (EMI), one of the biggest challenges is reportedly the teachers' own lack of English language proficiency. Helping teachers to improve their proficiency while learning about pedagogy is critical to achieving reasonable success in EMI. This article is contextualized...

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Published in:Frontiers in psychology 2023-03, Vol.14, p.1134982
Main Author: Han, ZhaoHong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
automated processing of natural language
English Medium Instruction
integration of content and language learning
Psychology
reading and writing
task-based instruction
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Summary:In English Medium Instruction (EMI), one of the biggest challenges is reportedly the teachers' own lack of English language proficiency. Helping teachers to improve their proficiency while learning about pedagogy is critical to achieving reasonable success in EMI. This article is contextualized in an English language teacher education program conducted in Tunisia. Specifically, I zoom in on a training task that had trainees reading an academic textbook and posting takeaways on an asynchronous platform over a four-week period. The corpus, comprising 50 journal entries produced by five teacher trainees, was analyzed, first using automated tools for natural language processing and then through human coding, for a combination of quantitative and qualitative perspectives, and with a view to deriving a comprehensive understanding of learning as manifested on multiple levels - psychological, cognitive, and linguistic. Results show impressive learning gains both in content and language. I conclude by discussing the findings and implications for EMI.
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1134982