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- | An increasing number of higher education institutions are adopting English as the medium of instruction for parts of their education. This means that vital academic exchanges are now taking place more frequently in second languages (L2) from both the teacher and student side. While this leads to increased | + | An increasing number of higher education institutions are adopting English as the medium of instruction for parts of or entire programs. This means that vital academic exchanges are now taking place more frequently in second languages (L2) from both the teacher and student side. While this clearly enhances not only the international reputation of the university but also the degree of proficiency |
- | **The benefits | + | The Sprachlehrinstitut (SLI) (link) has launched a program |
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- | * Fine tune your target discourse | + | |
- | * Improve your ability | + | |
- | * Become more aware of cultural aspects at play in the classroom | + | |
- | * Enhance necessary soft skills when engaging | + | |
**Services offered | **Services offered | ||
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- | * Discourse | + | * **General weekly courses** to clean up inconsistencies, |
- | * Individual | + | * **Specific courses** such as |
- | * Stylistic | + | * Language and structuring tips for international settings (link) |
+ | * Audience management- fielding and responding to questions and fostering classroom discussion (link) | ||
+ | * Vocal and oral pronunciation training (link) | ||
+ | * Retooling strategies for international classrooms (link) | ||
+ | * Intercultural aspects dealing with critical incidents (i.e., cultural expectations in academia) (link) | ||
+ | * Departmental courses/ | ||
+ | * Presentation workshops for academic and research conferences (link) | ||
+ | * Individually tailored block sessions of coaching for lecturers | ||
+ | * Proofreading, | ||
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+ | **The benefits | ||
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+ | * Fine tune your target discourse | ||
+ | * Retool teaching strategies adapted to second language skills | ||
+ | * Incease confidence in delivering quality lessons in English | ||
+ | * Develop and hone skills to cope with student communication difficulties in the classroom | ||
+ | * Become more aware of cultural aspects at play in the classroom and be better prepared for the multicultural learning environment | ||
+ | * Enhance language soft skills when engaging and guiding students in workshop like environments as well as outside the classroom | ||
+ | * Build communities of practice among colleagues (i.e., sharing best practices and experiences) | ||
+ | * Assurance that your presentations and writings are presented in a linguistically appropriate fashion | ||
**The next step | **The next step | ||
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- | In order to provide competent consulting for those interested in utilizing EMI services, an initial needs analysis must be conducted. This is generally followed by classroom observation, which allows | + | If you are interested in our course offers, feel free to click on the links above and register for the class. Upon request, a classroom observation |
- | The needs analysis questionnaire can be accessed by clicking here: | + | |
+ | If you are interested in accessing our coaching services, click on the link above to set up an initial meeting where needs and goals are determined before conceiving and scheduling sessions and discussing | ||
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+ | For any enquiries concerning support services for writing or any other general questions, please feel free to conact us at the following addresses: | ||
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+ | Gregg Dubow-- | ||
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+ | Joshua Lange-- joshua.lange@sli.uni-freiburg.de | ||
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+ | We look forward to working together with you! | ||
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