EMI Course Introduction
English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) is the practice of teaching subjects in Higher Education through English to students whose first language is not English.
This online course helps you to become an educational practitioner ready to support students in EMI contexts. You will explore ways to guide your students’ understanding and support their spoken and written output.
Throughout the course you will be able to share and discuss your ideas and experiences with other course participants.
The course aims to enable participants to:
1) Consolidate their understanding of key issues in EMI
2) Apply a variety of teaching strategies for working with texts in English
3) Use a variety of techniques that help students follow English-medium classes
4) Plan interactive lectures and use support strategies to guide students’ understanding
5) Use a variety of teaching strategies for encouraging students’ spoken and written output
About Dr. Erkan Arkin
Erkan Arkin holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics, specialising in English Medium Instruction (EMI) in higher education. He is a tutor on NILE’s online course “English as a Medium of Instruction”. He joined the NILE project team in 2019 that provided consultancy and facilitated the development and delivery of a three-year national EMI capacity-building program for Uzbekistan’s higher education sector.
Erkan comes from an educational background with over twenty years' teaching experience in the university context with a strong interest in contributing to the education and development of pre-service and in-service teachers, thanks to his dual role as faculty staff and professional development specialist at the university’s Foreign Languages and English preparatory school. Amongst the positions held, he acted as the head of professional development, responsible for EAP teacher training and the Rector’s coordinator for academic affairs, managing English language support programmes across various academic disciplines.
After completing his doctoral study, Erkan became interested in supporting university lecturers to improve their educational practices, specifically focusing on maximising learning in English-taught programs. His latest presentations and publications have covered topics on EMI in higher education and EMI teacher training, including chapter contributions in the two edited books, English-Medium Instruction in European Higher Education: English in Europe (2015) and English as the Medium of Instruction in Turkish Higher Education: Policy, Practice and Progress (2022).
