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Estudios “bilingües” y EMI en la Universidad española 2016 – 2017

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Acaba de publicarse el documento de la CRUE sobre la Universidad española correspondiente al curso 2016-2017. Esto es lo que incluye sobre enseñanzas “bilingües” (p.115 del mencionado informe):   4.04 La impartición de titulaciones oficiales de Grado y Máster en lenguas extranjeras es todavía muy reducida en la oferta de las universidades españolas. En el … Read more

U. Oxford Keynote: Education and learning research in the age of complexity and fragmentation. An introspection

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  Oxford-Cambridge PhD students’ exchange seminar. Department of Education, University of Oxford. June 1, 2018. Keynote: Education and learning research in the age of complexity and fragmentation: an introspection On 1 June 2018 I had the privilege to deliver a keynote on the Oxford-Cambridge PhD in Education exchange. I discussed the impact of the ideas of … Read more

Academia is like a pie-eating contest where the reward is more pie

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Love this art by Christopher Vorlet in The Chronicle of Higher Education. This is about how those in the academia experience anxiety and the never-ending feeling that there is not such thing as “enough”. I was shocked by this quote: “Academia is like a pie-eating contest where the reward is more pie.”

Productivity anxiety: the uneasy feeling that there is always something left to do.

You can read the whole piece here:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Feeling-Anxious-You-re-Not/243117

 

Empleo y aprendizaje de lenguas en el Reino Unido

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  I Jornadas Vocational Guidance In Clil (VGCLIL). Universidad de Murcia. 23 October, 2018. CLIL en contextos profesionales.Acceso a la presentación online. Links: Languages for the future. British Council 2017. The value of languages. Cambridge Language Sciences. 2017. SMEs language survey. British Academy. 2015   Algunos datos sobre VGCLIL (Prof. Purificación Sánchez Hernández, Coordinadora en España … Read more

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