2024

Forthcoming - SHIFT Dissemination Day (20th and 21st May)

AESLA 2024: 41 Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada 'Análisis del Discurso y Enseñanza de Lenguas en la Era de la Inteligencia Artificial' , 17th-19th April, 2024, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain.

Emma Dafouz, Sonia López-Serrano y Pascual Pérez-Paredes (presentation/talk). "MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: STUDENT DISCIPLINARY LITERACIES TRAJECTORIES IN ENGLISH-MEDIUM BUSINESS PROGRAMS "

Elena Orduna-Nocito y Sonia López-Serrano (presentation/talk). "DISCIPLINARY LITERACIES: UNVEILING BUSINESS STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVES IN ENGLISHMEDIUM EDUCATION"

Davinia Sánchez-García (presentation/talk). "COGNITIVE DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS IN BUSINESS STUDENTS’ ORAL PRODUCTION: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY IN AN ENGLISH-MEDIUM EDUCATION SETTING "

Irene Soriano-Flórez y Emma Dafouz (presentation/talk). "RETHINKING BILITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS EME: BELIEFS FROM STUDENTS AND LECTURERS"

2023

International Symposium “Issues in English-medium instruction in Higher Education: Global competence, plurilingual competence and disciplinary literacies”, 9th and 10th November 2023, Universitat de Lleida (UdL), Spain.

Emma Dafouz (Invited Speaker): "A Disciplinary Literacies Approach to English-medium education: Insights from the SHIFT research project"

ICLHE Vienna 'Taking Stock and Looking Forward', 2nd and 3rd November 2023, Universität Wien, Austria.

International Joint Conference of APLX, ETRA40, and TESPA 2023 - Advancing empowerment and resilience: Language, culture, policy and pedagogy, 11th October 2023, Taipei, Taiwán.

Emma Dafouz (Keynote Speech). "Empowering Minds: The Role of Disciplinary Literacies in English-Medium Internationalised Universities"

20th AILA World Congress, Lyon, France.

María Kuteeva, Emma Dafouz & Ute Smit (Multimodal sympoisum). "[SYMP52] Multilingualism across disciplines in English-medium higher education"

Joint AELFE-LSPPC International Conference - Genres and languages in digital communication: trends and new directions, 28th-30th June 2023, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.

Davinia Sánchez-García & Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández (presentation/talk). "Students’ disciplinary literacy in English-medium higher education: Cognitive discourse functions in oral business case studies"

Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Pilar Aguado-Jiménez (presentation/talk). "Learners’ acquisition of disciplinary literacy in EME business programmes: Triangulating learner and expert corpora in business case studies"

Sonia López-Serrano; Alicia Martínez-Flor & Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández (presentation/talk). "Designing self-access online materials to aid EFL learners’ development of digital communication skills in academic contexts: A focus on email requests to faculty"

Verena Grau & Ute Smit "EMI instead of ESP? Students’ literacy trajectories towards writing research proposals in an international business bachelor programme"

IV ICLHE Spain Regional Group Symposium - Supporting teaching and learning in ICLHE: from policies to students, 8th-9th June 2023, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.

Emma Dafouz & Sonia López-Serrano (presentation/talk). "Exploring student views of disciplinary literacies and internationalization in English-medium higher education: A comparison of two European settings"

International conference on academic literacies in multilingual contexts: Bridging research evidence and classroom practice, 18-19th May 2023, Universidad de Mondragón, Spain.

Irene Soriano-Flórez (presentation/talk). “EME students’ views of their learning: context-specifc implications for biliteracy development"

AESLA 2023: 40 Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada 'Interdiscursividad y géneros digitales: ciencia abierta y multilingüismo', 26-28th April, 2023, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain.

Sonia López-Serrano & Emma Dafouz (presentation/talk). "Combining student views of internationalization and the building of disciplinary literacies in English-medium higher education: Findings from a survey in Business Studies"

Sonia López-Serrano & Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández (presentation/talk). "Promoting EFL university students' pragmatic awareness of high imposition email requests to faculty through self-access online materials"

Pat Moore & Emma Dafouz & Miya Komori-Glatz (presentation/talk). "Comparing student and teacher perspectives on emergent disciplinary literacies in English-medium degrees"

Irene Soriano-Flórez (presentation/talk). "Foregrounding students’ reflexions on L1 use to address biliteracy in EME"

UIC 2023 8th Annual Spring Research Conference: Teaching, learning and communicating in multilingual contexts, 24th March, UIC University, Spain.

Verena Grau (presentation/talk). "EME bachelor students’ reflections on their disciplinary literacy trajectories in a multilingual university context”

Seminario T-Co2: Recursos para la internacionalización de la docencia, 22nd February, UCM, Spain.

Elena Orduna-Nocito (presentation/talk). Presentación Proyecto Innova 2023.

Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández (presentation/talk). "Propuestas formativas sobre la internacionalización de la docencia en la UCM"

2022

BIUNED 2022: Bilingualism and bilingual education: Sociolinguistic approaches, 10-11th November 2022, UNED University, Spain. 

Elena Orduna-Nocito. (presentation/talk). "Students' understanding of internationalisation of higher education: The case of business students"

Irene Soriano-Flórez. (presentation/talk). "‘Me gustaría aprenderlo en español también’ students’ translanguaging beliefs and practices in EME"

ICLHE 2022: EMI, ICLHE & Englishization: Reflecting on the changing university, 18th-21st October 2022, University of Maastricht, NL.

Emma Dafouz, Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Sonia López-Serrano: "Shift student survey: rationale, development and preliminary findings"

Verena Grau, Katharina Ghamarian-Krenn: "Extramural English and EMEMUS: Findings from a survey of Spanish and Austrian business students"

Pat Moore, Miya Komori-Glatz, Emma Dafouz, Irene Soriano-Flórez: "Student and Teacher (conflicting) views of Disciplinary Literacies in an EME Business programme: Insights from focus groups"

Davinia Sánchez-García, Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández: "Materialized genres in EME higher education: Students’ oral presentations of Business case studies"

Julia Hüttner, Ute Smit: "Arguments and Argumentation in Undergraduate Business Writing in English-Medium Education. Next empirical steps and overall discussion"

Colloquium "Advancedness in CLIL: Academic Literacies, Assessment and Equity", 23rd September 2022, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

Julia Hüttner (presentation/talk): "Translanguaged oral argumentations: Evidence from CLIL Economics"

SLTED 2022 - Second Language Teacher Education: Challenges and New Horizons, 15th-17th September 2022, University of Vienna, Austria.

Emma Dafouz & Davinia Sánchez-García (symposium). "Developing Researchbased Teacher Education Programmes and Student Support Structures for English-medium Higher Education: A European Perspective"

World CLIL 2022 - Symposium: CLIL in Higher Education - A Disciplinary Literacies Approach from the student perspective (90 minutes, organizers: Emma Dafouz and Davinia Sánchez -García)

Topic 1 (25 min): Introducing the SHIFT research project: Disciplinary Literacies from the learners’ perspective (Emma Dafouz and Sonia López-Serrano,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Topic 2 (15 min): The impact of extramural English in English-medium settings (Verena Grau and Katharina Ghamarian-Krenn, University of Vienna)

Topic 3 (15 min): SHIFTing the focus to the students (Pat Moore, Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

Topic 4 (15 min): Students’ oral output at university: Materialized and symbolic genres (Davinia Sánchez–García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

ICLHE Spain Regional Group: Different perspectives on the sustainability of ICLHE in Spanish higher education, 15-16th June 2022, Universidad de Almería, Spain.

Emma Dafouz (President of ICLHE Spain) - Updates on ICLHE Spain Regional Group 

Elena Orduna-Nocito. (presentation/talk). "La perspectiva del alumnado sobre la internacionalización y su papel en la elaboración de políticas lingüísticas sostenibles"

Emma Dafouz, Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández & Irene Soriano-Flórez. (presentation/talk). "T-Co: Seminar for the Internationalisation of Education: A professional development course for Business teachers"

IV SEING Seminar: Back to the Future: English Studies in the new normal, 6th May 2022, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.

Irene Soriano-Flórez (presentation/talk). "L1 Beliefs and Use in an English-only Business classroom"

AESLA 2022: Las variedades lingüísticas desde el enfoque intercultural, 27-29th April, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

Sonia López-Serrano (presentation/talk). "How can I correct what I don’t know? Using metalinguistic explanations to foster feedback understanding in low-level
EFL learners"

Irene Soriano-Flórez (presentation/talk). "Exploring L1 perceptions and use in an EME Business university context"

7th Annual Spring Research Seminar: Rising up to new challenges in multilingual education, 1st April 2022, UIC, Barcelona.

Emma Dafouz (Plenary). “Disciplinary Literacies in English-medium higher education: from monolingual views to multilingual practices”

UPCEL 2022: English on the move, 24-25th January 2022, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Irene Soriano-Flórez (presentation/talk). "Translanguaging practices and beliefs in an EME Business classroom"

Seminario T-CO: recursos de apoyo a la docencia en inglés, 12th January 2022, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Emma Dafouz (presentation/talk). "The importance of Internationalisation and bilingual repertoires in English-Medium Education"

Davinia Sánchez-García (presentation/talk). "Propuestas formativas sobre internacionalización de la docencia en la UCM"

Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández (presentation/talk). "Seminario T-Co: recursos de apoyo a la docencia en inglés"

UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, Research events, 11th January 2022, University College London, UK.

Emma Dafouz (presentation/talk). "Approaching English-medium Education in Multilingual University Settings through the ROAD-MAPPING framework"

The recording of Dr Emma Dafouz’s seminar held on 11 January 2022 for UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics 21-22 Seminar Series is now available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOH2F6gQCNI

2021

English in higher education - challenges, opportunities, current practice and future trends, 1st December 2021, British Council.

Emma Dafouz & Ute Smit (presentation/talk). "English as a medium of education in multilingual university settings (EMEMUS)"

V Simposio Internacional EDiSo 2021, 27th September - 1st October.

Emma Dafouz (presentation/talk). "Developing disciplinary literacies in English-medium higher education: Views from the student perspective."

EUROSLA 30, 1-3 July 2021,Universidad de Barcelona, Spain 

Sonia López-Serrano & Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández (presentation/talk). "Exploring the intersection between L2 proficiency and L2 writing: A focus on functional adequacy in EFL".

V Jornadas de Jóvenes Investigadores en Filosofía y Ciencias del Lenguaje, 1st-3rd June 2021, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Irene Soriano-Flórez (presentation/talk). "L1 attitudes and practices in EME Business study programmes"

Fourth Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars' Conference, 27th-28th May 2021, Universidad de Valladolid & Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Irene Soriano-Flórez (presentation/talk). "Internationalisation and language shifts in EME Business Degrees"

SEING III: Building Bridges and Filling Gaps in English Studies Research, 27th-28th May 2021, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain 

Irene Soriano-Flórez (presentation/talk). "L1 beliefs and use in EME study programmes"

II Spain Regional Group Symposium Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education (ICLHE), 26th-27th May 2021, Universidad de Lérida, Spain

Emma Dafouz (presentation - President of ICLHE Spain).

AESLA, 14th-16th April 2021, Universidad de la Coruña, Spain

Pat Moore & Sara López Stoelting (presentation/talk). “Am I really bilingual? That seems a bit arrogant” 

Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández & Sonia López-Serrano (presentation/talk). "Functional adequacy in L2 writing across proficiency levels: Exploring written communication in English Higher Education" 

Multilingualism on My Mind: exploring Multilingualism in Education, 18th-19th March 2021, University of Bergen, Norway 

Pat Moore & Sara López Stoelting (presentation/talk). “If being bilingual is feeling at home in a language, I’m in!” Pre-service EFL teachers react to the multilingual turn. 

AILA CLIL ReN: "CLIL and Subject Literacies", 19th February 2021, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Panelists: Emma Dafouz, Julia Hüttner & Yuen Yi Lo.

2020

VIII Biennial CLIL Symposium, 25th September 2020, Universidad del Norte, Colombia

Emma Dafouz (Plenary talk). "Exploring Student Disciplinary Literacies in English-medium higher education: Where do we start?"