Strategic listening in the EMI classroom: How students comprehend the teacher input

Strategic listening in the EMI classroom: How students comprehend the teacher input

Dr Daniel FUNG

The University of Hong Kong

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in English Medium Instruction (EMI), along with other bilingual education programmes such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Students enrolled in these programmes learn content subjects (e.g., Science) through their less familiar second or additional language (L2) English. While some research attention has been devoted to classroom interaction in EMI, revealing that teacher talk dominates, there is a scarcity of research that examines what learners do when attempting to comprehend the teacher talk in order to learn content subjects effectively. For example, little is known about how students use a range of listening strategies (e.g., inferencing, recall of prior knowledge, monitoring, etc.), which can facilitate their comprehension of the teacher input.

In this seminar, the speaker will present two studies…