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All over Europe, universities are moving over to English as the language of instruction. This development has been accelerated by global forces, and its pedagogical consequences have yet to be fully explored. This book examines this situation from the point of view of students and teachers, focusing particularly on the acquisition of English language writing skills in European university contexts. It takes an academic approach, and is firmly grounded in the bibliography on teaching academic writing to second language users in English-speaking countries, as well as in the bibliography on teaching English in Europe in higher education. In addition to providing sound pedagogical guidelines, it also brings together the most recent critiques of current practice and an overview of the innovative approaches devised in the last ten years. This is a book for all those who are involved in the changing European university scenario: English teachers and writing instructors, lecturers faced with the challenge of teaching their courses in English, university administrators and decision-makers.

Academic writing --- Englisch. --- Hochschule. --- Wissenschaftlicher Text. --- Hochschulwesen --- Bildungwesen: Europa --- Sprachenkonzept: Bildungspolitik --- Fremdsprachen: Fachdidaktik --- Textsorten: Schriftlicher Ausdruck --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Europa. --- Academic writing. --- Education, Higher -- Europe. --- Higher education and state -- Europe. --- Education, Higher --- Education --- Social Sciences --- History of Education --- Hochschulwesen. --- Bildungwesen: Europa. --- Sprachenkonzept: Bildungspolitik. --- Fremdsprachen: Fachdidaktik. --- Textsorten: Schriftlicher Ausdruck. --- Study and teaching (Higher). --- Study and teaching --- Learned writing --- Scholarly writing --- Authorship --- Education, Higher. --- Europe. --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has now become a feature of education in Europe from primary school to university level. CLIL programmes are intended to integrate language and content learning in a process of mutual enrichment. Yet there is little consensus as to how this is to be achieved, or how the outcomes of such programmes should be measured. It is evident that a further type of integration is required: that of bringing the practice of CLIL into closer contact with the theory. In this, it is necessary to establish the role played by other fundamental aspects of the learning process, including learner and teacher perspectives, learning strategies, task design and general pedagogical approaches. The first part of this book provides a variety of theoretical approaches to the question of what integration means in CLIL, addressing key skills and competences that are taught and learned in CLIL classrooms, and exploring the role of content and language teachers in achieving an integrated syllabus. The second part takes specific cases and experimental studies conducted at different educational levels and analyses them in the light of theoretical considerations.

Language and languages --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Study and teaching --- Study and teaching. --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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"The political landscape in Europe is currently going through a phase of rapid change. New actors and movements that claim to represent 'the will of the people' are attracting considerable public attention, with dramatic consequences for election outcomes. This volume explores the new political order with a particular focus on discursive constructions of 'the people' and the category of populism across the spectrum. It shows how a unitary representation of 'the people' is a central element in a vast range of very diverse political discourses today, acting to anchor identities and project antagonisms in a multitude of settings. The chapters in this book explore commonality and contrast in representations of 'the people' in both radical and mainstream political movements, looking in depth at recent political discourses in the European sphere. The authors draw on approaches ranging from Essex-style discourse theory over critical discourse studies, corpus analysis and linguistic pragmatics, to investigate how historically situated categories such as the people and populism become fixed through local linguistic, textual and narrative practices as well as through wider ideological and discursive patterns"--

Populism --- Group identity --- Nationalism --- Communication in politics --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Political science --- Political communication --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- E-books --- Populism - Europe --- Group identity - Europe --- Nationalism - Europe --- Communication in politics - Europe --- Europe - Politics and government - 21st century --- Europe - Social conditions - 21st century

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As English gains prominence as the language of higher education across the world, many institutions and lecturers are becoming increasingly concerned with the implications of this trend for the quality of university teaching and learning. With an innovative approach in both theme and scope, this book addresses four major competencies that are essential to ensure the effectiveness of English-medium higher education: creativity, critical thinking, autonomy and motivation. It offers an integrated perspective, both theoretical and practical, which defines these competences from different angles within ELT and Applied Linguistics, while also exploring their points of contact and applications to classroom routines. This approach is intended to provide practical guidance and inspiration, in the form of pedagogical proposals, examples of teaching practice and cutting-edge research by scholars and university teachers from all over the world. To that end, a leading specialist in the field introduces each of the four competencies, explaining concepts accessibly and synthetically, exposing false myths, presenting an updated state of the art, and opening windows for future studies. These introductions are followed by practitioner chapters written by teachers and scholars from different cultures and university contexts, who reflect on their experience and/or research and share effective procedures and suggestions for the university class with English as a vehicle for instruction.

Didactics --- Didactics of languages --- Higher education --- Linguistics --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- didactiek --- talenonderwijs --- linguïstiek --- creativiteit

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As English gains prominence as the language of higher education across the world, many institutions and lecturers are becoming increasingly concerned with the implications of this trend for the quality of university teaching and learning. With an innovative approach in both theme and scope, this book addresses four major competencies that are essential to ensure the effectiveness of English-medium higher education: creativity, critical thinking, autonomy and motivation. It offers an integrated perspective, both theoretical and practical, which defines these competences from different angles within ELT and Applied Linguistics, while also exploring their points of contact and applications to classroom routines. This approach is intended to provide practical guidance and inspiration, in the form of pedagogical proposals, examples of teaching practice and cutting-edge research by scholars and university teachers from all over the world. To that end, a leading specialist in the field introduces each of the four competencies, explaining concepts accessibly and synthetically, exposing false myths, presenting an updated state of the art, and opening windows for future studies. These introductions are followed by practitioner chapters written by teachers and scholars from different cultures and university contexts, who reflect on their experience and/or research and share effective procedures and suggestions for the university class with English as a vehicle for instruction.

Language and languages --- Applied linguistics. --- Education, Higher. --- Learning, Psychology of. --- Language Education. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Higher Education. --- Instructional Psychology. --- Study and teaching.