New book release: Languages and the Internationalisation of Higher Education

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce our volume containing contributions to (a) language policy and internationalisation; (b) specific training for the university community; and (c) language testing and accreditation:

 

Languages and the Internationalisation of Higher Education

www.cambridgescholars.com/languages-and-the-internationalisation-of-higher-education

See the flyer (it contains a promo discount code).

 

See below titles and authors of chapters.

Kindest regards,
Dolores González y Esperanza Rama (eds.)

 

 

 

 

Contents

Introduction (Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez)

 

SECTION 1: LANGUAGE POLICY AND INTERNATIONALISATION

  • Languages and Internationalisation: Strategies and Policies (Dolores González-Álvarez)
  • How to Establish a Language Policy: Opportunities and Challenges (Mariluz Fernández-Otero and Birgit Strotmann)
  • Supporting Internationalisation through Languages: The Worldwise Languages Programme and Lessons for the Future (Sofia Anysiadou)
  • Policy, Principles and Practices for the International Classroom at a University in the Netherlands: How do we Support the Lecturers? (Kevin Haines)

 

SECTION 2: SPECIFIC TRAINING FOR THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY

  • Extending In-Class Tuition through Mobile Instant Messaging (Alberto Andújar-Vaca)
  • “Seeing is Believing”: Developing EMI Lecturers’ Classroom Interactional Competence Using Video Enhanced Observation (Matthew Banks)
  • Shortcomings in the Professional Training of EMI Lecturers: Skills-Based Frameworks as a Way Forward (Antonio Jiménez-Muñoz)
  • Improving Oral Skills in University Lessons: Techniques and Strategies to Use Pronunciation Effectively (Cynthia Pimentel-Velázquez and Víctor Pavón-Vázquez)
  • New Challenges Need New Approaches: A Staff Training Programme for the Higher Education Area (Teresa Rieger and Ulrike Szigeti)

 

SECTION 3: LANGUAGE TESTING AND ACCREDITATION

  • Good Practice in Piloting (Rebeca García-Rueda and Laura Riera-Grau)
  • LAL for Teachers: Proposal for an Open Access Knowledge Base (Julia Zabala-Delgado and Cristina Rodríguez-Rodríguez)
  • Assessing Speaking: Then and Now (David Bradshaw)
  • Lexical Availability Tests in Lexical Competence Assessment: A Class Experiment (Sofia Oliveira-Dias)
  • Accreditation Processes: How Much we can Learn from them (Helena Šajgalíková)

 

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