Workshop on English-Mediated Instruction: (Dis)abilities and (im)possibilities in EMI practice
Workshop on English-Mediated Instruction: (Dis)abilities and (im)possibilities in EMI practice
2023 July 1-2 (Saturday & Sunday)
July 1: Semi-open talks + discussion, followed by a closed workshop session with only research members and invited guests
July 2: Optional morning excursion experience to the Peace Memorial Museum from the perspective of EMI
To share the current progress and challenges of our project and exchange ideas with colleagues working in similar fields at different institutions
To attend to the significance of multiple forms of mediation in EMI settings, e.g.,
Languages
Interactions with classroom assistants (CAs)
Course materials
To focus on how the coordination, application, and support of these mediating elements become abling or disabling for everyone involved in EMI situations
To share functional concepts that make new thoughts about EMI possible
Deficit Model
One concept that may help to clarify the underlying links to disability, language ideology, and technology in English-mediated education is the "deficit model" and its oppositions to a “social model” and an asset-based “funds of knowledge” model (Moll, 2014). Rather than taking a narrow view of participants' or tools' capacities based on an assumed "normal" situation—for example, focusing on what students and teachers can't do within a socially constructed frame of activity—we might instead consider the broader environment and structures, as well as hidden capabilities such as knowledge in unrecognized/uncounted forms and resources within the situation viewed more broadly. We might attend to the institutional environment's particular constraints as well as its affordances. Similarly, we might recognize and construct mediating structures, that is, designed environments or components of environments that enable intended development along desired lines. As scaffolding and the creation of zones of proximal development (ZPDs), such mediation could facilitate "performance before competence" (Cazden, 1981, qtd. in Moll, 2014).
Moll, L.C. (2013). L.S. Vygotsky and Education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203156773
(Dis)abilities and (im)possibilities in EMI practice
Keywords: deficit model, mediation, universal design, accessibility, ableism, native speakerism, care, reasonable accommodation, infrastructure, human-non-human entanglement, becoming
Invited Speakers and Participants
Davey Young (English education, Sophia University)
Matthew Schaefer (English education, Sophia University)
Makoto Nishi (medical anthropology, Hiroshima University)
Miki Namba (anthropology, Kagoshima University)
Project Members
Nick Kasparek (English education, EUH)
Yoko Taguchi (anthropology, EUH)
Nozomi Mizushima (feminist STS, EUH)
Masaki Sagehashi (environmental and chemical engineering, EUH)
Detailed Schedule
Saturday, July 1 (Room 602-603)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch meeting: Introductions of participants
Semi-open talks (Eikei faculty/staff and friends, etc.): 20-min talk + 10-min discussion
13:00 - 13:30 Kasparek, Taguchi, Mizushima & Sagehashi: Introduction of the EMI project and workshop
13:30 - 14:00 Davey Young, Sophia University, Embracing Constraint in Mediating CLIL & Inclusive Education (1)
14:00 - 14:30 Matthew Schaefer, Sophia University, Embracing Constraint in Mediating CLIL & Inclusive Education (2)
(Break)
14:40 - 15:10 Makoto Nishi, Hiroshima University, Teaching the Failed HPV Vaccination Campaign and Structural Violence in India in a Medical Anthropology Course in Japan
15:10 - 15:40 Miki Namba, Kagoshima University, International Students as Catalysts: The Transformative Role of Mediators and Classroom Dynamics
Closed (EMI members and guest speakers) workshop & next steps
15:50 - 17:30
Sunday, July 2
Morning: Experiencing the Peace Memorial Museum from the perspective of EMI and the History of Science and Technology
Funding
Transdisciplinary Action Research for English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) Courses: Designing Effective Education Through Scaffolding, The Murata Science Foundation (公益財団法人村田学術振興財団・研究助成 ), Nick Kasparek (PI), Sep 2022 - Aug 2024
Contact
Yoko Taguchi: yokotaguchi@ssd.eikei.ac.jp, Nick Kasparek: nick@ssd.eikei.ac.jp