"You try with a little humor and you just get on with it": Danish lecturers' reflections on English-medium instruction

TY - CHAP

T1 - "You try with a little humor and you just get on with it"

T2 - Danish lecturers' reflections on English-medium instruction

AU - Kling, Joyce

PY - 2015/6/26

Y1 - 2015/6/26

N2 - This study reports on the reflections of 10 Danish experienced applied natural science lecturers about their perceptions of effects of teaching in an English-medium instruction (EMI) setting. The study utilized a multi-method approach to delve into the university lecturers' reflections. The analysis drew on the lecturers' comments and concerns related specifically to their thoughts when teaching outside their mother tongue in a multicultural, multilingual graduate setting. The results show evidence that experienced non-native speaker (NNS) natural science EMI lecturers do not find that the identified challenges of teaching in a foreign language affect their sense of themselves as teachers. While these lecturers express confidence and security in the EMI context, the findings confirm the instructional and linguistic challenges identified in previous EMI research. Overall, the lecturers highlight teaching experience and pedagogic content knowledge as factors that are at the core of their perceptions of themselves as teachers.

AB - This study reports on the reflections of 10 Danish experienced applied natural science lecturers about their perceptions of effects of teaching in an English-medium instruction (EMI) setting. The study utilized a multi-method approach to delve into the university lecturers' reflections. The analysis drew on the lecturers' comments and concerns related specifically to their thoughts when teaching outside their mother tongue in a multicultural, multilingual graduate setting. The results show evidence that experienced non-native speaker (NNS) natural science EMI lecturers do not find that the identified challenges of teaching in a foreign language affect their sense of themselves as teachers. While these lecturers express confidence and security in the EMI context, the findings confirm the instructional and linguistic challenges identified in previous EMI research. Overall, the lecturers highlight teaching experience and pedagogic content knowledge as factors that are at the core of their perceptions of themselves as teachers.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - English as the medium of instruction

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-1-61451-735-1

VL - 3

SP - 201

EP - 222

BT - English-medium instruction in higher education

A2 - Dimova, Slobodanka

A2 - Hultgren, Anna Kristina

A2 - Jensen, Christian

PB - De Gruyter

CY - Berlin

ER -