“Yes, I wouldn’t have done that in Spanish”. Unlocking lecturers’ multimodal competence in LREs in EMI contexts

Abstract

Within an EMI context, students find themselves immersed in a teaching environment where the working language is an additional language, which can lead to difficulties in their understanding and participation (Rose, 2021). On top of that, EMI lecturers do not always seem to be aware of the potential linguistic limitations of students (Aguilar, 2017; Aintzane & Lasagabaster, 2020) or may even be reluctant to focus on language (Airey, 2012). While the additional language component can be challenging, multimodality can be an effective pedagogical strategy that lecturers can employ to ease the path to understanding a lecture taught in an additional language. This webinar illustrates how multimodality helps ICLHE or EMI teachers in their task to transmit knowledge and facilitate learning of content through an additional language (Ruiz-Madrid & Fortanet-Gómez, 2019; 2023). We present and discuss actual EMI teaching practices in a Mechanical Engineering course in Spain in which the…