Workshop: Unlocking your Full Potential when Teaching in English

Unlocking your Full Potential when Teaching in English

Teaching in English (also known as English-medium Instruction or EMI) represents an exciting opportunity for lecturers to expand their teaching portfolio. At the same time, research has shown that the change to EMI brings a range of challenges as well as benefits for students and teachers. High expectations on both sides as well as new course formats require lecturers to reflect on their teaching practices and whether these are optimal for the specific context of EMI at WU.  

This workshop will help you shift your perspective, exchange experiences and offer you tools that will help you unlock your full potential when teaching in English.

Target Group

All lecturers who are currently teaching in English as well as those who will do so in the future are welcome to join this workshop.

Goals

After this workshop, you will be able to:

• shift your perspective from focusing on challenges to recognising competences in EMI settings
• handle typical situations in the classroom with confidence and competence
• create an interactive classroom by applying tried and tested strategies

Content

This interactive workshop comprises:

• opportunities to reflect on teaching & learning in English
• a framework of key competences for optimising teaching in English
• tools and techniques for maximising comprehension and encouraging interaction (e.g. scaffolding, foregrounding content)
• strategies for classroom management (e.g. giving clear instructions)

Location, Date and Time

Friday, 11 June 2021, 9.00 am – 12.30 pm

All registered participants will be informed of the location by email one week before the event.

The workshop is planned as a face-to-face event. Due to the corona situation, it is currently difficult to predict how the general conditions will develop in the summer semester. You can find the currently valid general conditions, which we update on a regular basis, here. All those, who have already registered, will also be informed directly by us, if there are changes regarding the workshop.

Fees and Registration

This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 28 May 2021.

Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged. Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.

To sign up for this workshop, please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. By registration for this workshop, you accept our terms and conditions “Workshop and Event Registration Information Sheet”. Further information on the collection of personal data can be found in the “Data Protection Statement” on our homepage.

For any further information please contact Nina Rath (Nina.Rath@wu.ac.at, Ext. 6173).

The course fee is €10.

Trainer

	Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Unterberger   Barbara completed her PhD in Applied Linguistics on English-taught degree programmes at business and economics universities, including a case study investigating the programme design of English-taught master’s programmes at WU. She is currently Senior Lecturer at the Institute for English Business Communication and coordinates the EBC 1 programme. She teaches EBC 1, EBC 2 and, at the Institute for Business Education, the elective course “English as a Teaching Language”. She has published numerous articles on English-medium Instruction and has given presentations at international conferences on EMI and higher education policy.
	Dr. Miya Komori-Glatz    Miya completed her PhD in Applied Linguistics on multicultural teamwork as part of an English-medium master’s programme at WU, focusing on how students interact with each other and deal with business content. She is currently Senior Lecturer at the Institute for English Business Communication. She coordinates the EBC 2 programme and teaches EBC2 and EBC3.   She has published numerous articles on English as a lingua franca (ELF) in academic and business contexts and has given presentations at international conferences on ELF, EMI and the internationalisation of higher education.