Oxford Day Online : Beyond the Classroom | Northern & Eastern Europe | October 2021

The online event will answer the following questions:
“What is EMI and in what contexts is it used (students, teachers, types and locations of institutions)?”
“What are global skills and why are they important?”.
Oxford Day Online will equip participants with practical ideas for brining L1 into an EMI programme and ways of assessing global skills in a regular ELT context.

Session #1. The Use of L1 in EMI
Many people consider that using the students’ first language in the English Medium Instruction (EMI) classroom to be wrong. However, there are many arguments for incorporating it, even if these might at first seem counterintuitive. In this session we will establish what we mean by EMI and its varied context, we will then look at the benefits of using the first language, and see how it can best be incorporated.

Session #2. Assessing Global Skills
For learners to succeed in the 21st century they need to develop a set of global skills which enable them to go beyond what the traditional school subjects can offer. The incorporation of global skills is to some degree already present in most ELT classrooms. However, if we really wish to promote and develop global skills in our learners we need to be clear about what successful use of these skills looks like and how we can assess them. This session addresses these issues and identifies how you can incorporate these into your current teaching practice.