My musings and insight into the worlds of language and international education.
Workshop: Creating Engaging EMI/CLIL Lessons
I led an online workshop on May 6 via the Universidad Católica de Manizales, open to EMI lecturers from UCM and institutions across the Sistema Universitario de Manizales (SUMA) network. Thank you to the UCM Global team for the invitation. Workshop description: Design deliberately sequenced and scaffolded lesson plans for your EMI course to help…
DCUTL 2026 Keynote: The Challenges and Opportunities of Task-Based Language Teaching in Multicultural Classrooms
This year’s Dalhousie Conference on University Teaching and Learning features a pre-conference workshop on May 5 focused on language education, entitled: “Building Inclusive Language Classrooms: Cooperative Learning, Task-Based Pedagogy, and AI in Multilingual Higher Education”. I will be delivering the opening keynote at this workshop, entitled The Challenges and Opportunities of Task-Based Language Teaching in…
IATEFL 2026: Critical Language Policy-Making as Key Competence in EMI Lecturer Training
I’m in the UK at my 11th IATEFL Conference since I started attending in 2013. It’s one of the main events in my own personal PD calendar every year.I’m presenting as part of a forum on Forum on Critical Perspectives in EMI Education, on Tuesday, April 21 at 2:20pm, alongside Here’s the abstract: EMI content…
Conferencia de Apertura del Curso EMI: Universidad Autónoma de Manizales
English-Medium Instruction (EMI) en la Educación Superior Colombiana La instrucción por medio del inglés (o EMI por sus siglas en inglés) ha sido adoptado en más de 40.000 cursos universitarios a través del mundo. Esta modalidad está cada vez más presente en las universidades colombianas debido a sus contribuciones a la internacionalización institucional y a…
Building a Critical EMI Practitioner Training Program
I’ve had the luxury of designing and delivering my own curriculum for the faculty training work in English-medium instruction I’m carrying out at the Universidad Católica de Manizales, supported by the ICETEX Expertos Internacionales program. One thing that was very important to me as I designed this program was that it be critical. I sought…
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Dr. Jennifer J. MacDonald 