Abstract
English medium instruction (EMI) has received increasing research attention through the globalization and internationalization of higher education. Empirical research has revealed that EMI classes tend to be monologic, which has long been viewed as problematic and potentially detrimental to dialogic and meaningful learning. Meanwhile, the rise of EMI also spurs translanguaging research, which largely encourages the mobilization of different linguistic resources (especially students’ L1) in addition to English in compensation for the potential difficulty in content comprehension. This makes it pertinent to reconsider how translanguaging and monologic lecturing could be integrated and optimized for knowledge construction in EMI classrooms. Through a qualitative case study, this paper reports the perceptions and practices of a history EMI teacher who tried to create a dialogic space for her students through the diversified use of translanguaging in her monologic lecturing. Her class was observed and audio-recorded for analysis, and stimulated recall after the semester revealed her pedagogical beliefs and reasoning. The study importantly points to the unique potential of a third category of EMI teachers who are neither native speakers of English nor share an L1 with their students in mobilizing a wide range of semiotic resources in EMI teaching. The findings demonstrate the power of translanguaging in fostering dialogic spaces within monologic lecturing, which might be necessary and inevitable in EMI courses. Challenges were also outlined with implications drawn to support EMI teachers in facilitating students’ disciplinary content learning.
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Conflict of interest: We have no known conflict of interest to disclose.
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- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Investigating the role of ideal L2 writing self, writing growth mindset, and writing enjoyment in L2 writing self-efficacy: a mediation model
- The role of home biliteracy environment in Chinese-Canadian children’s early bilingual receptive vocabulary development
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- A systematic review of time-intensive methods for capturing non-linear L2 development
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- Review Article
- Early career language teachers’ cognition, practice, and continuous professional development: a scoping review of empirical research
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- Unpacking digital-driven language management in a Chinese transnational company: an exploratory case study
- Unequal translanguaging: the affordances and limitations of a translanguaging space for alleviating students’ foreign language anxiety in language classrooms
- Monologuing into a dialogic space through translanguaging: probing the perceptions and practices of a history EMI teacher in higher education
- How foreign language learners’ benign and deleterious self-directed humour shapes their classroom anxiety and enjoyment
- Generative AI and the future of writing for publication: insights from applied linguistics journal editors
- Positive emotions fuel creativity: exploring the role of passion and enjoyment in Chinese EFL teachers’ creativity in light of the investment theory of creativity
- The perception of gradient acceptability among L1 Polish monolingual and bilingual speakers
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