Leveraging ESP teachers’ roles: EMI university teachers’ professional development in medical and healthcare fields

IF 3.2 1区 文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI:10.1016/j.esp.2024.01.005
Yi-ping Huang , Lu-Chun Lin , Wenli Tsou
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Researchers have acknowledged that English-medium Instruction (EMI) instructors' professional development (PD) is crucial for promoting high-quality student learning outcomes, resulting in an increasing number of EMI PD programs worldwide across a variety of academic fields. Much research on EMI PD has focused on how to support EMI teachers rather than who can serve as teacher developers. This paper presents a glocalized EMI PD program designed collaboratively by experienced ESP teachers and EMI instructors in Taiwan's higher education. The study focused on a cohort from the medical and healthcare faculty, revealing significant improvements in their EMI pedagogical knowledge and self-efficacy. These enhancements were evidenced by increased skills and understanding related to EMI. Additionally, it highlighted the positive outcomes of dispelling EMI misconceptions, increasing awareness of effective language use in teaching, as well as addressing the nuances of EMI pedagogy and self-efficacy. The above findings suggest that ESP teachers can be leveraged as legitimate designers of PD programs to effectively address EMI university instructors' needs, given their expertise in ESP, disciplinary literacy, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Therefore, this study serves as a valuable reference and springboard for the future development of EMI PD programs.

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发挥 ESP 教师的作用:EMI 大学教师在医疗保健领域的专业发展
研究人员已经认识到,英语母语教学(EMI)教师的专业发展(PD)对于促进高质量的学生学习成果至关重要,因此,世界各地越来越多的英语母语教学专业发展项目横跨各个学术领域。关于 EMI PD 的许多研究都集中在如何支持 EMI 教师,而不是谁可以作为教师发展者。本文介绍了一个由台湾高等教育中经验丰富的ESP教师和EMI教师共同设计的本地化EMI PD项目。这项研究的重点是医疗保健学院的一批教师,结果显示,他们的 EMI 教学知识和自我效能感都得到了显著提高。这些提高体现在与 EMI 相关的技能和理解能力的提高上。此外,它还强调了消除 EMI 误解、提高教学中有效使用语言的意识以及解决 EMI 教学法和自我效能的细微差别等方面的积极成果。上述研究结果表明,鉴于ESP教师在ESP、学科素养和跨学科合作方面的专业知识,他们可以作为PD项目的合法设计者,有效地满足EMI大学教师的需求。因此,本研究可为未来的 EMI PD 项目发展提供有价值的参考和跳板。
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期刊介绍: English For Specific Purposes is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. Topics such as the following may be treated from the perspective of English for specific purposes: second language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation, materials preparation, discourse analysis, descriptions of specialized varieties of English.
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