Edited by Patrick Andrews, Monday, 29 Aug 2016, 12:43
For the past couple of summers, I have been working at the University of Reading on courses for English for Academic Purposes lecturers from universities in China and I have taught one group of these teachers this year.
However, there is a new course that is about to start its second week. This is for teachers of other subjects at Chinese universities who are interested in teaching through English (English as a Medium of Instruction). This is an interesting new angle on my work as the focus is on the methodology of teaching through language, which resonates with the ideas of writers like Halliday (2004[1980]). So, there is a need to focus on meaning and intelligibility to an even greater extent than usual and there is perhaps less of a focus on accuracy,
Halliday, M.A.K. (2004 [1980]) ‘Three aspects of children’s language
development: learning language, learning through language, learning
about language’, in Halliday, M.A.K. (ed.) The Language of Early Childhood: Vol. 4 The Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday, London, Continuum.
Summer work
For the past couple of summers, I have been working at the University of Reading on courses for English for Academic Purposes lecturers from universities in China and I have taught one group of these teachers this year.
However, there is a new course that is about to start its second week. This is for teachers of other subjects at Chinese universities who are interested in teaching through English (English as a Medium of Instruction). This is an interesting new angle on my work as the focus is on the methodology of teaching through language, which resonates with the ideas of writers like Halliday (2004[1980]). So, there is a need to focus on meaning and intelligibility to an even greater extent than usual and there is perhaps less of a focus on accuracy,
Halliday, M.A.K. (2004 [1980]) ‘Three aspects of children’s language development: learning language, learning through language, learning about language’, in Halliday, M.A.K. (ed.) The Language of Early Childhood: Vol. 4 The Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday, London, Continuum.