Navigating English Medium Instruction

Contents

Some reactions of students from Sri Lanka and from Hong Kong

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 : INTRODUCTORY SECTIONS

1.1a How to Work with This Book

1.1b A General Glossary of Terms Used in This Book (How We Have Used Certain Words)

1.2 Your Transition from School to University

1.3 Let's 'Situate' Your EMI Subject

1.4 What Are Your EMI Lessons Like?

1.5 Your 'Language Support' Programme

1.6 Dealing with Words: Technical Words; Technical-Plus Words; General Academic Words; Everyday Words

Chapter 2 : AROUND YOUR CLASSES: BEFORE TAKING OFF!

2.1 Strategies for You to Consider Just Before the Lesson

2.2 Technical and Academic Words in a Text

2.3 What Do We Mean By 'Keywords'? (Dealing With 'The Concept Iceberg')

2.4 Before the Lecture: Getting Ready!

2.5 Using the Lecture Title and Course Outline to Prepare

2.6 Knowing Your Lecturer's Voice aand Language

2.7 Online Lectures and Podcasts

2.8 Preparing to Listen to Your Teacher: Using Audio Recordings

2.9 Pre-Lecture Reading: Your Own Reasons for Reading

2.10 Pre-Reading Around Your Classes

Chapter 3 : IN-FLIGHT STRATEGIES: COPING WITH TURBULENCE

3.1 Note-Taking: What Goes on in Our Brains!

3.2 Making In-flight Lecture Notes

3.3 Strategies to Think About During the Lesson

3.4 Discourse Markers: Navigating a Lecture

3.5 The Prior Knowledge Strategy When Listening

3.6 The IRF Sequence: What It Is For; What It Does; How to Deal with It.

3.7 You and Your Home Language: To Use Or Not To Use, That Is The Question!

3.8 Language Demands of Notes

Chapter 4 : AROUND YOUR CLASSES: REFLECTING AFTER LANDING

4.1 Improving Your Note-Taking Together

4.2 The Power of Talking

4.3 Work with Course-Mates: From Notes to Connected Speech

4.4 Accountable Talk: Making It All a Little More Formal

4.5 Multiword Units

4.6 Word Families

4.7 Gently Persuading Your Teacher

4.8 Elaborate Interrogation: How/Why?

4.9 Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning: The Power of Questions and Answers!

4.10 Reflecting on Questions Post-Lesson

4.11 Examples of Socratic Questions: Invitations to Better Thinking

4.12 Ideas for Better Answers

4.13 Developing Your Range of Rhetorical Functions

4.14 Working on Your Own with Your Smartphone

4.15 Modified Cornell Notes: From In-Flight Note-Taking to Post-Flight Note-Making

4.16 Post-Class Reading For Writing

4.17 Writing