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Fostering team teaching: Mapping out a research agenda for English-medium instruction at university level

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2018

David Lasagabaster
David Lasagabaster*
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University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spaindavid.lasagabaster@ehu.eus
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Abstract

Although English-medium instruction (EMI) courses are burgeoning at university level on a global scale, there is a scarcity of pedagogical guidelines about how to implement effective courses, while most higher education institutions rarely offer courses aimed at helping EMI teachers tackle this new teaching context. An additional concern has to do with the fact that content EMI lecturers tend to avoid language aspects, a weakness that could be overcome by boosting team teaching, that is, the collaboration between language and content teachers. Previous research reveals that team teaching improves undergraduates’ learning and can also be a gratifying experience for the teaching staff involved, who usually highlight the motivational boost it gives them because it stimulates reflection on their pedagogical knowledge and practices. In this paper I put forward research tasks with a view to enticing researchers to embark on projects focused on this uncharted territory, as team teaching is a research field in which much remains to be done.

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Language Teaching , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , July 2018 , pp. 400 - 416
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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