Program

13:30 - 14:30
Plenary 1

Mediation of conceptual change in EMI disciplinary teaching: The case of advanced ecology

Pei-Jen Lee Shaner

Professor at the School of Life Science at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Amy B. M. Tsui

YuShan Fellow of National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Professor Emerita of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

14:40 - 15:40
Plenary 2

Striving for artistic excellence and disciplinary knowledge: Multilingualism in classical music higher education in Austria

Ute Smit

Professor of English Linguistics and Circle U. Academic Chair (Multilingualism, Interculturality, Language) at the University of Vienna, Austria

Miya Komori-Glatz

Senior Lecturer in English Business Communication at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

16:00 - 17:00
Plenary 3

Reimagining elderly care architecture through English medium instruction: The CARE LAB experience

Samantha Curle

Reader in Education (Applied Linguistics), Director of the MRes programme in Advanced Quantitative Research Methods at the University of Bath, and Associate Member of the English Medium Instruction Oxford Research Group at the University of Oxford

Julie Walaszczyk

ICLHE Advisor and e-Learning Educational Developer for the Language and Internationalisation Unit (Faculty of Translation and Interpretation) at the University of Mons, Belgium

Chaima Seddiki

Lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Mons (UMONS), Belgium

09:00 - 10:00
Plenary 4

Analysing the process and outcome of student-teacher interactions in understanding design concept in interior design

Daisuke Nagatomo

Associate Professor in the Department of Design at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Robert Wilkinson

Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Maastricht University, Netherlands

Hung-Chun Wang

Associate Professor in the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

10:10 - 11:10
Plenary 5

Language and conceptual change: The construction of ethnomusicology knowledge

Pei-Ling Huang

Assistant Professor at the Center for General Education at National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Hsin-Wen Hsu

Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Amy B. M. Tsui

YuShan Fellow of National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Professor Emerita of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

11:20 - 12:20
Plenary 6

Teaching university chemistry in English: A flipped classroom approach

I-Jy Chang

Professor in the Department of Chemistry at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

John Airey

Professor of University Science Education at Stockholm University and Reader in Physics Education Research at Uppsala University, Sweden

13:30 - 14:30
Plenary 7

The impact of questions on disciplinary knowledge construction: A focus on history EMI classes

Óscar Álvarez-Gila

Professor of History at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain

David Lasagabaster

Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain

14:40 - 15:40
Plenary 8
Work in progress

● The teaching of historical concepts through EMI

Sheng-Yen Lu

Assistant Professor in the Department of History, NTNU

David Lasagabaster

Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain

● The teaching of natural resources through EMI online cross-border grouping

Meng-Wan (Mary) Yeh

Professor in the Institute of Marine Environmental Science and Technology, NTNU

Cindy Sin-Yi Chang

Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, NTU

Nicole Judith Tavares (FHEA)

Senior Lecturer in the Academic Unit of Language and Literacy Education at the Faculty of Education, HKU

Amy B. M. Tsui

YuShan Fellow of National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Professor Emerita of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

16:00 - 17:15
Round-table & closing

Disciplinary teachers as participant co-researchers in EMI research

Disciplinary specialists

Óscar Álvarez-Gila, I-Jy Chang, Hsin-Wen Hsu, Pei-Ling Huang, 

Daisuke Nagatomo, Pei-Jen Lee Shaner, Chao Wang

Language/education specialists

John Airey, Samantha Curle, Miya Komori-Glatz, David Lasagabaster, Ute Smit, Amy B. M. Tsui, Hung-Chun Wang, Robert Wilkinson

Moderators

Amy B. M. Tsui & John Airey

(The speakers’ names are listed in alphabetical order)