Month: May 2015

English as a medium of instruction, British Council report

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  This report presents the findings of a study which attempted to provide an initial picture of the rapidly growing global phenomenon of English medium instruction (EMI). Our working definition of EMI was: The use of the English language to teach academic subjects in countries or jurisdictions where the first language (L1) of the majority of the population … Read more

Native & learner language in interviews

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This talk discusses some of our findings in Pérez-Paredes, P., & Sánchez Tornel, M. (2015). A multidimensional analysis of learner language during story reconstruction in interviews. In M. Callies & S. Götz (Eds.), Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.   A contrastive analysis of native and non-native speaker interviews from Pascual … Read more