ESPSIG: Empowering EAP Teachers as EMI Academic Developers through Multiliteracies Pedagogies

During an Erasmus Staff Week organized by the University of Crete, eight language teachers attended the program entitled "Closing the Gap for EMI Development Courses" This EMI program was designed based on Multiliteracies pedagogy and included the four aspects of LEARNING by DESIGN (Cope and Kalantzis, 2009). Through participation in activities within a reflexive pedagogy framework, participants reflected on the extent to which the Multiliteracies pedagogy model employed in the training process empowered them as EMI Academic Developers. Herein, we discuss the points of convergence between EAP, ESP, and EMI, and suggest EMI academic development processes employed by EAP teachers.

Speaker -Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts

Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts (BA, MEd, PhD) teaches "Teaching Approaches in Multiliteracies and Multimodality" and "Technical Writing"and "English for Specific Academic Purposes." She has authored three textbooks on EAP/ESP, a book on Multiliteracies, and co-authored and edited a book on teaching methodologies in Higher Education. She is also involved in initiatives for EMI Faculty/Teacher training. Her research explores topics such as active student engagement, student-centered teaching approaches, and digital academic literacy. Additionally, she is the founder and scientific coordinator of the Biannual International Conference EAPCRETE and a postdoctoral researcher in Multiliteracies.

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