TY - GEN
T1 - Topic Oriented Mixed-Method System (TOMMS)
T2 - ICL 2017
AU - Docherty, Mathew
AU - Gaubinger, Kurt
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper addresses the issue of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) in European higher education, which has been referred to as ‘the language of higher education in Europe’ [1]. It outlines the goals of this new phenomenon, analyses the current situation and evaluates potential limitations. It investigates how, using team-teaching, inverted classrooms and active classroom techniques, potential hurdles may be reduced. How, through careful planning and coordination, students and teachers alike, can be prepared for the new challenge of teaching and learning content through English. It goes on to outline a systematic approach, coined by the authors as the Topic Oriented Mixed-Method System (TOMMS), where each topic is initially addressed in a contact lesson with a Language Teaching Expert (LTE), to prepare students, it then introduces them to the theory in self-study sessions, before applying the theory, under guidance of the Content Expert (CE), in tasks and projects. This paper provides a holistic mixed-methods pedagogical approach to address the issue of knowledge transfer in EMI programmes using state of the art methodologies to allow the LTE to support the CE in planning and teaching of content. It offers higher education institutes (HEIs), who may be averse to teaching content courses in English, an effective system to implement EMI and, for those that already have, it offers ways to improve the efficiency of them.
AB - This paper addresses the issue of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) in European higher education, which has been referred to as ‘the language of higher education in Europe’ [1]. It outlines the goals of this new phenomenon, analyses the current situation and evaluates potential limitations. It investigates how, using team-teaching, inverted classrooms and active classroom techniques, potential hurdles may be reduced. How, through careful planning and coordination, students and teachers alike, can be prepared for the new challenge of teaching and learning content through English. It goes on to outline a systematic approach, coined by the authors as the Topic Oriented Mixed-Method System (TOMMS), where each topic is initially addressed in a contact lesson with a Language Teaching Expert (LTE), to prepare students, it then introduces them to the theory in self-study sessions, before applying the theory, under guidance of the Content Expert (CE), in tasks and projects. This paper provides a holistic mixed-methods pedagogical approach to address the issue of knowledge transfer in EMI programmes using state of the art methodologies to allow the LTE to support the CE in planning and teaching of content. It offers higher education institutes (HEIs), who may be averse to teaching content courses in English, an effective system to implement EMI and, for those that already have, it offers ways to improve the efficiency of them.
KW - Active classroom
KW - Blended learning
KW - English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)
KW - Inverted classroom
KW - Project-based learning
KW - Team-teaching
KW - Web-based learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040180525&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-73210-7_97
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-73210-7_97
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783319732091
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 840
EP - 851
BT - Teaching and Learning in a Digital World - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning
A2 - Guralnick, David
A2 - Simonics, Istvan
A2 - Auer, Michael E.
Y2 - 27 September 2017 through 29 September 2017
ER -