EMI Classroom Communication

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.

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 Drljäa Margi- is a Professor at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. She has a PhD from the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Introduction: Corpora in EMI research. 1. CEFR profiles for oral English certification of lecturers in higher education. 2. (Dis)fluency and pronunciation accuracy in EMI lectures. 3. Mediation strategies in EMI: Facilitating access to knowledge through language. 4. "Nothing beats the real thing": The use of examples in EMI lectures. 5. Episodes of code-switching in EMI across European contexts. 6. Real examples of ICC practices in the EMI classroom. 7. EMI vs L1MI: Lecturers' perceptions and practices.