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.”

Tecnologías Integradas en la Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras (en Español)

Author: Varios Autores

Recommended by: María Isabel Jiménez González

“En la página 30 de este libro, aparecen 3 recursos para mejorar la pronunciación de manera autónoma (Forvo, Rhinospike y Fluentu). En la página 29 del mismo libro también aparecen dos herramientas para adquirir vocabulario (Memrise y Quizlet).”

Thesaurus – Synonyms, Antonyms, and Related Words

Author: Farlex

Recommended by: David Carrascosa Cañego

“A comprehensive online thesaurus of synonyms, antonyms and related words. The thesaurus contains over 145,800 unique entries from three main sources: Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged, The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus, and WordNet.”