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Certificate in EMI Skills

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Important information

Certificate in EMI Skills will be retiring on 31 October 2023. We are no longer accepting new courses and entries.

However, we will continue to provide support for the course until 31 July 2023.*

*Support for China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan will be available until 31 October 2023.

The Certificate in EMI Skills course helps higher education professionals to:

  • communicate more effectively in English with students and colleagues
  • use a range of language in different situations, from lectures and tutorials to conferences and online discussions
  • increase familiarity with a range of skills for delivering instruction in English.
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The Certificate in EMI Skills is a 40-hour online learning course.

Each of the eight online modules has approximately 5 hours of online study materials and 3 hours of optional materials which can be delivered face-to-face, online or as a combination of the two. The optional seminars extend and provide practice for participants’ online learning.

The Certificate in EMI Skills has eight modules:

Module Content
1 Language for lectures
  • Different lecture styles
  • Introducing a lecture
  • Signposting and cohesion in lectures
  • Concluding a lecture.
2 Language for seminars
  • Structuring seminars
  • Giving step-by-step guidance
  • Using questions to guide students
  • Answering students’ questions.
3 Language for small groups and practical sessions
  • Explaining procedures
  • Setting up groups
  • Monitoring groups and practical sessions
  • Ending a group discussion or practical session.
4 Language for tutorials and supervision
  • Setting goals and expectations
  • Advising students on strengths and weaknesses
  • Problems and solutions
  • Focusing on the individual student.
5 Language for online communication
  • Online communication skills
  • Writing emails
  • Managing group communication
  • Responding to online communication.
6 Language for evaluation and feedback
  • Giving constructive feedback
  • Giving targeted feedback
  • Distinguishing between necessity and suggestion
  • Organisation of feedback.
7 Language for developing and extending professional roles
  • Preparing for academic interviews
  • Writing a conference proposal
  • Engaging in peer mentoring
  • Networking in social situations.
8 Language for fulfilling professional responsibilities
  • Different students’ characteristics and needs
  • Institutional conventions
  • Institutional differences
  • Relationships within university settings.

Each module has a number of lessons, which all have the following structure:

  • an introduction to the topic
  • interactive learning activities
  • interactive practice activities
  • progress test and assignments.

Participants are assessed in the following ways:

Assessment component Description
Four written assignments within each module Participants apply the language and skills they have learned to their own context and reflect on their experience.
An end-of-module progress test Participants complete a multiple-choice test to check their learning.

Participants will gain a certificate of completion:

  • either on completion of the whole course
  • or on completion of individual modules, where participants are registered only for those modules.

EMI Skills case study

Cambridge English provided lecturers from Mexico’s Tecnológico de Monterrey, one of Latin America’s largest higher education institutions, with a tailored EMI training course to improve their knowledge of instructional level English. The course used a blended, online learning approach which provided lecturers with a more flexible and convenient alternative to a classroom-based course.

Read the Improving EMI Skills for University Lecturers case study

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