Current Trends in EMI and Multimodality in Higher Education

Looking at both English Medium Instruction (EMI) and multimodality in higher education, this edited volume bridges the gap between the two contexts by offering various new insights into fundamentals in multilingual education, EMI discourse and current teaching practices in internationalised contexts. Current demands in communication, especially in higher-education contexts, require examining EMI from a multimodal perspective with the aim of giving explicit attention to modern discourse practices.
The contributors reflect on the principles guiding EMI and multimodality and their application in higher education using both practical examples and data-driven evidences. They discuss EMI multimodal discourse from an empirical perspective to unveil communicative practices in internationalised higher-education contexts; and exemplify classroom applications and ESP and EAP pedagogical practices that promote multimodal competence in higher education. The contributors provide solid theoretical foundations, key principles, research evidence and pedagogical implications that inform current methodologies and practices for EMI, ESP and EAP, as well as multimodality in higher education.
This volume on EMI and multimodality in higher education will have broad appeal for researchers worldwide from various fields of expertise within education and applied linguistics.

Author Biography

Vicent Beltrán-Palanques is Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at the Universitat Jaume I, Spain. His research interests focus on ESP/EAP pedagogy, English-Medium Instruction in higher education, multimodal discourse analysis and multimodal literacy and pragmatics and interaction. He has published in international journals such as System, Journal of English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes, as well as in international publishing houses like Routledge, Brill and Springer.

Edgar Bernad-Mechó is Associate Professor at Universitat Jaume I, Spain. He specialises in the use of metadiscourse and multimodality in academic contexts and for science dissemination. He has published papers in journals like the Journal of English for Academic Purposes or Discourse Studies, and co-edited a special issue on multimodality for Ibérica. In his recent studies he has explored the modal density and coherence of YouTube videos for science dissemination and looked at the use of humor and other engagement strategies in science communication online.