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493791-FS2026-0-Prepare to Teach with Confidence in English: Optimizing Use of English as a Medium of Education





Root number 493791
Semester FS2026
Type of course Workshop
Allocation to subject Academic English Services
Type of exam not defined
Title Prepare to Teach with Confidence in English: Optimizing Use of English as a Medium of Education
Description Mastery of English as a medium of education (EME) is essential to international and academic careers. This practical course for early-career researchers and other staff members comprises three presemester workshops (4, 11, and 18 February), in-semester individual coaching, observations, and teaching practice, and three in-semester evening workshops (7, 21, and 28 May). At the end of this course, participants can
• efficiently prepare and confidently deliver lectures, seminars, and tutorials in English,
• confirm student uptake and understanding in frontal teaching situations such as lectures,
• quickly identify and repair misunderstandings in English dialogue with students,
• distinguish students’ problems with language from problems with subject understanding,
• deliver instructions for active learning tasks of varying complexity,
• practice a range of microteaching and active learning techniques in English,
• understand cultural differences in discourse structure and expectations,
• apply AI tools, especially LLMs, to help prepare for teaching, and
• evaluate their own and others’ pronunciation, vocabulary choices, speech patterns, and discourse structures.

To register, please contact simon.milligan@unibe.ch directly.
ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course) No registration/deregistration in CTS (Admission in ILIAS possible). ILIAS
Link to another web site Further information for this course
Lecturers Dr. Simon Milligan, Vice-Rectorate International and Academic Careers, Language Center ✉
ECTS 2
Recognition as optional course possible Yes
Grading passed/failed
 
Dates Wednesday 13:15-16:45 Weekly
Thursday 16:15-18:45 Weekly
 
Rooms
 
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