Recommended by: David Carrascosa Cañego
“Online dictionary with word placement to help you study, write and speak English effectively and naturally.”
Etiqueta: Open Access
Lecturer’s Strategies in English Speaking Class
Author: Daddi, H. & Ul Haq, M. Z.
Recommended by: David Carrascosa Cañego
“This research aimed to reveal what strategies were applied by lecturers in English speaking class, how those strategies were applied and to know the students’ perceptions towards the use of those strategies.”
The Teachers’ Room: Top Tips For Giving Instructions
Author: BBC Learning English
Recommended by: David Carrascosa Cañego
“This video is very useful for teachers to learn how to instruct their students correctly.”
Strategies for Academic English
Author: Lee, K.
Recommended by: Alicia Fernández Barrera
“A lecture about EMI from a graduate student programme. It provides general strategies and tips to improve English academic writing and presentations. This includes the writing process and the difficulties in working in English as a second language.”
English for Teaching Purposes: A Mooc Provided by the Language Service at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
Author: Solá Viñals, S., Ygoa-Bayer, J. & James, I.
Recommended by: Alicia Fernández Barrera
“It provides the necessary tools to integrate different aspects of CLIL (methodological, pedagogical, strategic, linguistic and pragmatic) to put together their own-English medium course on their particular subject. It also describes the characteristics of the university lecture discourse genre and explains the appropriate linguistic aspects, micro-functions in English teaching discourse (metalinguistic, informative, evaluative, inductive, etc.) to consolidate their oral expression and interaction, as well as their grammar and vocabulary.”
Glossary of terms and concepts used in TKT: CLIL
Author: Cambridge University
Recommended by: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro
“TKT CLIL glossary, available online to handle basic terminology, of particular interest is the entry on visual organisers, which allows us to identify the name of the type of organiser we use.”
Speaking in Academic Contexts
Author: Gillet, A.
Recommended by: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro
“Page with resources on English for Academic Purposes (Using English for Academic Purposes for Students in Higher Education). In the link you can find concrete examples of the parts of a presentation.”
CLASS-TALK – A University Teaching Phrasebook
Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Recommended by: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro Faya Cerqueiro
“Website of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. It has a wide repertoire of useful structures for teaching in English, with conversational strategies for oral practice, such as starting a session, changing the subject or referring to resources, among others. All with transcription and audio, as well as a translation into Spanish.”
Exploring teachers’ oral explanations of new English lexical items in a Chinese university: Comparisons with dictionary information
Author: Macaro, E.
Recommended by: Alicia Fernández Barrera
“This article analyses EMI teachers’ discourse in a Chinese university, particularly oral explanations of unfamiliar lexical item in EMI subjects. It is a comparative study between oral explanations and the information provided by dictionaries in order to gain insights into the challenges teachers face when putting across the meaning of words which may not have direct equivalence in both languages.”
‘I can’t find the words now…’: Teacher Discourse Strategies and their Communicative Potential in Spanish- and English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education
Author: Sánchez-García, D.
Recommended by: Alicia Fernández Barrera
“This study examines the discourse strategies deployed in the teaching of the same disciplinary content through both their L1 and their L2 to examine the extent to which these strategies help teachers achieve their communicative goal. The study unveils the impact of the language of instruction on teachers’ communicative strategies and sheds light on teachers’ pressing linguistic needs.”