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Essential Competencies for English-medium University Teaching

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Editors:
  1. Ruth Breeze

    1. Instituto Cultura y Sociedad, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

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  2. Carmen Sancho Guinda

    1. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  • Provides an innovative, coherent and carefully-assembled perspective on four key competencies essential to learning English as a lingua franca: creativity, critical thinking, learning autonomy and motivation
  • Includes a balanced combination of cutting-edge research and practical guidance
  • Offers introductions by leading specialists in the field followed by practitioner chapters from different cultures and university contexts

Part of the book series: Educational Linguistics (EDUL, volume 27)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Making Essential Competencies Visible in Higher Education

    • Carmen Sancho Guinda, Ruth Breeze
    Pages 1-16

  4. Creativity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. In Search of Creativity

      • Alan Maley
      Pages 85-98

    3. Teaching Creatively and Teaching for Creativity

      • Teresa Cremin
      Pages 99-110

    4. Creativity and Digital Literacies in English for Specific Purposes

      • Christoph A. Hafner, Lindsay Miller, Connie Kwai Fun Ng
      Pages 111-123

    5. Towards a Corpus-Attested Definition of Creativity as Accessed through a Subtextual Analysis of Student Writing

      • Marija Milojkovic, Bill Louw
      Pages 125-141

  5. Autonomy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Three Versions of Learner Autonomy and their Implications for English-Medium Degree Programmes

      • David Little
      Pages 145-157

    3. Listening to Local Voices: Teachers’ Representations on Learner Autonomy

      • Faiza Bensemmane-Ihaddaden
      Pages 159-168

    4. Reevaluating the Roles of the Stakeholders in Language Education: How Student Autonomy Is Promoted through Projects in English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) Courses

      • Miriam Symon
      Pages 169-181

    5. Learner Autonomy and Awareness through Distance Collaborative Group Work in English for Academic Purposes

      • Elisabet Arnó-Macià
      Pages 183-200

    6. Argumentation and Floor Management in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

      • Kenneth Keng Wee Ong, Sujata S. Kathpalia
      Pages 201-217

    7. Rising Spirals and Virtuous Circles: The Interrelationship between Motivation and Learner Autonomy

      • Ruth Wilkinson
      Pages 219-232

  6. Motivation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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About this book

As English gains prominence as the language of higher education across the world, many institutions and lecturers are becoming increasingly concerned with the implications of this trend for the quality of university teaching and learning. With an innovative approach in both theme and scope, this book addresses four major competencies that are essential to ensure the effectiveness of English-medium higher education: creativity, critical thinking, autonomy and motivation. It offers an integrated perspective, both theoretical and practical, which defines these competences from different angles within ELT and Applied Linguistics, while also exploring their points of contact and applications to classroom routines. This approach is intended to provide practical guidance and inspiration, in the form of pedagogical proposals, examples of teaching practice and cutting-edge research by scholars and university teachers from all over the world. To that end, a leading specialist in the field introduces each of the four competencies, explaining concepts accessibly and synthetically, exposing false myths, presenting an updated state of the art, and opening windows for future studies. These introductions are followed by practitioner chapters written by teachers and scholars from different cultures and university contexts, who reflect on their experience and/or research and share effective procedures and suggestions for the university class with English as a vehicle for instruction.

Reviews

“The volume is a valuable reading for ESP practitioners who will find support and guidance on how to promote the four competencies in their teaching, which would enhance their professional status and identity.” (Zuocheng Zhang and Hao Liu, ESP Today, Vol. 6 (1), 2018)

“This volume makes a new and interesting contribution. Drawing from the expertise of scholars from around the world, this book convincingly highlights how Creativity, Critical Thinking, Student Autonomy, and Motivation work as four intertwining strands for enhancing the quality of second language education.” (Gregory Hadley, Ph.D., Niigata University, Japan)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Instituto Cultura y Sociedad, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Ruth Breeze

  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Carmen Sancho Guinda

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essential Competencies for English-medium University Teaching

  • Editors: Ruth Breeze, Carmen Sancho Guinda

  • Series Title: Educational Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40956-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40954-2Published: 14 October 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82226-6Published: 27 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40956-6Published: 06 October 2016

  • Series ISSN: 1572-0292

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 307

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Higher Education, Learning & Instruction

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