Academic vocabulary in use: 50 units of academic vocabulary reference and practice; self-study and classroom use

Author: McCarthy, M., & O’dell, F.

Recommended by: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro

“Academic writing manual which can be useful for oral presentations. For example: how to refer to data, how to mention different types of figures, with which verbs they are usually combined, etc.”

– McCarthy, M., & O’dell, F. (2008). Academic vocabulary in use: 50 units of academic vocabulary reference and practice; self-study and classroom use. Ernst Klett Sprachen.

Academic writing: A handbook for international students

Author: Bailey, S

Recommended by: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro

“Academic writing manual which can be useful for oral presentations. For example: how to refer to data, how to mention different types of figures, with which verbs they are usually combined, etc.”

– Bailey, S. (2014). Academic writing: A handbook for international students. Routledge.

Talking People Website

Author: talkingpeople.net

Recommended by: Mª Prado Camacho Alarcón

“At this website you’ll find explanations, exercises & resources useful for learning English, to use your English in different ways, to develop a personal relationship with the language, to develop a life-long learning habit of using your English in various ways every day, to communicate with people (blogs, forums, by sharing your published work), etc.”

Neurosensory Stimulation: Helping EMI Teachers to Improve Speaking and Listening

Author: Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)

Recommended by: María Isabel Jiménez González

“This document is a programme of an EMI conference that took place a few months ago at the UPV. There was a paper («Neurosensory Stimulation: Helping EMI Teachers to Improve Speaking and Listening») by Cristina Perez Guillot and Hernán Cerna which focused on improving the speaking competence of EMI teachers. It would be interesting to get the talk or the article if it was published later.”

Teaching Speaking Based on ESP (English for Specific Purposes) Material for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Students

Author: Ramadhani, P.

Recommended by: María Isabel Jiménez González

“Although it is a rather dense and theoretical article, teachers using EMI can get some hints and tips related to the oral communication of their (computer engineering) students.”

Content-Based Instruction: A Relevant Approach of Language Teaching

Author: Bula, O.

Recommended by: María Isabel Jiménez González

“From page 75 onwards, an example lesson plan and materials are shown, based on the discipline of chemistry, where listening strategies are applied to understand lectures, both in class and in lectures. It seems to be more focused on students, but teachers could use the expressions in handout #2 and 4.”