English-Medium Instruction Translanguaging Practices in Asia (PDF)

Wenli Tsou is a Full Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, and currently the Director of the Foreign Language Centre, at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Foreign and Second Language Education from the State University of New York in Buffalo, USA. She is the project leader of the National Cheng Kung University English for specific purposes (ESP) and English-medium instruction (EMI) programs. She is also the leading figure of bilingual education in Taiwan, helping with teacher training and curriculum design. Her research interests include teacher training, English for specific purposes, English as a lingua franca, content and language interacted learning and English-medium instruction. Her current research projects focus on the links between transdiciplinary teaching and translanguaging of bilingual education and English-medium instruction.

Will Baker is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and the Director of the Centre for Global Englishes at the University of Southampton, UK. His research interests are English as a lingua franca (ELF), intercultural and transcultural communication, English-medium instruction (EMI), intercultural education, intercultural citizenship and English Language Teaching (ELT), and he has published and presented internationally in all these areas. His current research projects focus on the links between intercultural citizenship, internationalisation of higher education and English-medium instruction.