EMI experience

My Experience Teaching an EMI Course

Electronic Circuits in the Time Domain

Language abilities

Math in English!

Challenges

Different levels of language proficiency

Students being too embarrassed to speak up

Course topics requiring too much technical language

MAKE THINGS HAPPEN

Why are you taking this course with me?... there's another class in Spanish ...

How do you feel about taking an Electronic's course in English?

What is you worst fear?

What do you need to make this course work for you?

In class we all need to speak English, even if you're speaking to a classmateChismes in English!

We are here to learn Electronics

So... Spanglish is ok!

Do we all agree to this? What happens if someone break this agreement?

All class work is given in written form before teacher explanation

No one is perfect, even the teacher makes mistakes and it's ok! (gives them permission to make mistakes in front of the class)

Questions need to be made in English, and will be answered in English

* for students with a very low level of English, more personal attention was needed(some code-switching was necessary)

Teacher explanation has a lot of visual aides, and also explains the work document

Frequently ask if they understood *ask for others' help to say in different words

Chisme in English! * bring something of my own to share with them

Most of the work in class is done in teamsOpportunity to practice English casually!

Vocabulary check!

Teacher asking students how to say something in English... they felt it gave them permission to make mistakes but speak anyways

Students practiced reading technical texts in English

Students practiced writing and speaking about the analysis and opinions in English

Students were happy to talk in English with each other

The use of "translanguaging" (Spanglish) was a great tool to inspire confidence and enable understanding complex topics

Students helped each other out with the vocabulary