Empowering minds: The role of disciplinary literacies in English-medium internationalised universities

IF 4 2区文学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Language Teaching Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI:10.1017/s026144482400048x

Emma Dafouz

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Abstract

As higher education increasingly embraces internationalisation, the surge in demand for English as the medium of education (EME) poses significant challenges for stakeholders. This keynote places disciplinary literacies (DLs), defined as the ability to appropriately participate in the communicative practices of a discipline (Airey, 2011), centre stage as a crucial construct for effective teaching and learning within specific subjects. Despite their critical role in facilitating comprehension and production of discipline-specific practices and texts, their integration into EME settings often remains overlooked, raising concerns about students’ mastery of disciplinary content. Against this backdrop, with the help of the ROAD-MAPPING framework (Dafouz & Smit, 2020) as a conceptual and analytical tool, and drawing on data from the SHIFT research project, I will illustrate how ROAD-MAPPING can be used to examine comprehensively and in a socially situated way the role of DLs in students’ learning experiences. The paper advocates for the importance of supporting students (and lecturers) in the development of DLs in EME underscoring the pivotal role ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes) professionals play in facilitating effective EME implementation.

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增强思维能力：学科素养在以英语授课的国际化大学中的作用

随着高等教育日趋国际化，以英语作为教育媒介（EME）的需求激增，给利益相关者带来了重大挑战。学科素养（DLs）被定义为适当参与学科交际实践的能力（Airey，2011 年），本主题演讲将学科素养作为特定学科有效教与学的关键构架。尽管其在促进学科特定实践和文本的理解和制作方面发挥着关键作用，但将其融入英语教育和培训环境往往仍被忽视，从而引发了对学生掌握学科内容的担忧。在这一背景下，我将借助 "路线图--映射"（ROAD-MAPPING）框架（Dafouz & Smit, 2020）这一概念和分析工具，并借鉴 SHIFT 研究项目的数据，说明如何利用 "路线图--映射 "以社会情景的方式全面考察 DLs 在学生学习经历中的作用。这篇论文强调了支持学生（和讲师）开发电子学习材料的重要性，强调了 ESP（专门用途英语）和 EAP（学术英语）专业人员在促进有效实施电子学习材料方面所发挥的关键作用。

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期刊介绍： Language Teaching is the essential research resource for language professionals providing a rich and expert overview of research in the field of second-language teaching and learning. It offers critical survey articles of recent research on specific topics, second and foreign languages and countries, and invites original research articles reporting on replication studies and meta-analyses. The journal also includes regional surveys of outstanding doctoral dissertations, topic-based research timelines, theme-based research agendas, recent plenary conference speeches, and research-in-progress reports. A thorough peer-reviewing procedure applies to both the commissioned and the unsolicited articles.