Research Projects

Journals and Book Chapters

Articles:

2025
 
Dafouz, E. (en prensa). English-medium instruction and English for Specific Purposes, Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2nd edition. Chapelle,Carol (ed). John Wiley & Sons.
 
Dafouz, E & López-Serrano, S. (en revisión). Unlocking the full potential of English-medium education: A longitudinal exploration of business students’ views of internationalised disciplinary literacies. ESP Journal.
 
Dafouz, E. (2025). Empowering minds: The role of disciplinary literacies in English-medium internationalised universities. Language Teaching. doi:10.1017/S026144482400048X
 
Sánchez-García, D., & Sánchez-Hernández, A. (2025, forthcoming). Exploring oral production skills in disciplinary literacies: Students’ use of Cognitive Discourse Functions in EME Business Case Studies, English Teaching & Learning. Springer
 
Sánchez-García, D. (2025, forthcoming). The longitudinal narrative constructions of students’ language and professional identities in English-medium higher education. Journal of Language, Identity and Education. Routledge.
 
2024
 
Hüttner, J., & Smit, U. (2024). Collaborative student writing in English-medium business studies: On the use of Cognitive Discourse Functions as an analytic tool. Wiener Linguistische Gazette, 97, 343-362. https://wlg.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_wlg/972024/wlg-97-2024.pdf
 
Lohan, R. P., & Dafouz, E. (2024). A situated analysis of English-medium education in a private business university: Insights from the ROAD-MAPPING framework. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 72, 101457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2024.101457
 
Sánchez-García, D. (2024). Lessons learned from Mentor-ING: an EME teacher education programme based on peer observation.Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1–15.
 
2023
 
Dafouz, E., López-Serrano, S., & Pérez-Paredes, P. (2023). Students’ views of disciplinary literacies in internationalised English-medium higher education: Step-by-step survey development. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2(3), 100073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100073
 

Moore, P. (2023). Translanguaging in CLIL. In Banegas, D. L., & Zappa-Hollman, S. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of content and language integrated learning (pp. 28-42). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003173151

Sánchez-García, D. (2023). Potential professional growth of English-medium education teachers in a transnational teacher education programInternational Journal of Instruction, 16(3), 1-24.
 

2022

Dafouz, Emma & Gray, John (2022). Rethinking the roles of ELT in English-medium education in multilingual university settings: an introduction, ELT Journal, 76 (2), 163–171. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccab096

Dafouz, Emma & Smit, Ute (2022). Towards multilingualism in English‑medium higher education: A student perspective. Journal of English-Medium Instruction,1(1), 29-47.

Dalton-Puffer, C., Hüttner, J., & Llinares Garcia, A. (2022). CLIL in the 21st Century: Retrospective and prospective challenges and opportunities. Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Edcuation. https://doi.org/10.1075/jicb.21021.dal

Rieder-Bünemann, A., Hüttner, J., & Smit, U. (2022). “Who would have thought that I’d ever know that!”: Subject-specific vocabulary in CLIL student interactionsInternational Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism25(9), 3184-3198. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2021.2020211

Orduna-Nocito, E., & Sánchez-García, D (2022). Aligning higher education language policies with lecturers’ views on EMI practices: A comparative study of ten European Universities. System, 104.

Valcke, J., Nashaat-Sobhy, N., Sánchez-García, D., & Walaszczyk, J. (2022). Teacher development to mediate global citizenship in English-medium education contextsJournal of English-Medium Instruction,1(1), 65-84.

Sánchez-Hernández, A. (2022). Second language pragmatic development in study abroad contexts: An introductionStudy Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 7(1): 2-23.

Sánchez-Hernández, A. and Barón, J. (2022). Teaching second language pragmatics in the current era of globalization: An introduction. Language Teaching Research, 26(2): 163-170.

 

2021

Dafouz, Emma (2021): Exploring the conceptualisation of linguistic diversity and multilingualism in the construction of (Transnational) European Universities: the case of UNA Europa, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2021.1920964

Dafouz, Emma (2021). Crossing disciplinary boundaries: English-medium education (EME) meets English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Ibérica: Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (AELFE), (41), 13-38. 

Dafouz, Emma & Smit, Ute (2021) English-medium education revisited: arguing for a comprehensive conceptualisation in the age of internationalised universities. European Journal of Language Policy. Special Issue: English-medium education in internationalised universities: new policy perspectives 13 (2), 141-159.

Komori-Glatz, Miya & Smit, Ute (2021). Exploratory Interactive Explaining (EXINTEX): Constructing Disciplinary Knowledge in Two Multilingual University Settings. Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amab023

Komori-Glatz, Miya & Schmidt-Unterberger, Barbara (2021). From profiling to pioneering: The drivers behind English-medium education at WU Vienna. European Journal of Language Policy 13 (2), 239-259.

 

Volumes:

2025

Dafouz, E, (2025) (editora) Internacionalizar la universidad española: estrategias, prácticas docentes y lenguas. Ediciones Complutense. https://doi.org/10.5209/ling.003 Colección Lingüística y Comunicación. (Este volumen editado de carácter divulgativo versa sobre los diferentes tipos y estrategias para la internacionalización de la educación superior en España. El volumen cuenta con trabajos elaborados por responsables de políticas universitarias y lingüísticas (tanto a nivel político como académico), profesores de contenido de diferentes áreas involucradas, profesores de lengua y organismos encargados de implementar y dinamizar la internacionalización de todo el territorio español). ISBN: 978-84-669-3875-4

 

Sánchez-García, D., Sánchez-Hernández, A., & Dafouz, E. (2025). Disciplinary literacies in English-medium higher education. Routledge.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Setting the scene 

Chapter 1. Disciplinary literacies in English-medium higher education: An

Introduction

Davinia Sánchez-García and Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández

 

Chapter 2. Ways forward in Understanding Disciplinary Literacies in English-medium Higher Education

Emma Dafouz, Julia Hüttner and Ute Smit

 

Part II: DLs in the classroom: lecturer and student perspectives and practices 

Chapter 3. “So far, we haven’t had to write very much. It’s all been multiple choice.” Lecturer and student (emerging) perspectives on disciplinary literacy development in English-medium business programs

Emma Dafouz, Miya Komori-Glatz and Pat Moore

 

Chapter 4. How do students acquire disciplinary literacy? Student and teacher perspectives from Master’s courses in the Life Sciences in a French university

Joanne Pagéze & Susan Becaas

 

Chapter 5. Making room for biliteracy development in EME programmes: Business and Economics students’ perceptions and self-reported practices

Irene Soriano-Flórez

 

Chapter 6. The impact of academic year on EME business students’ views on disciplinary literacy

Elena Orduna Nocito

 

Chapter 7. Extramural English and English-medium education: A binational survey of bachelor students’ views on their academic disciplinary practices 

Katharina Ghamarian, Verena Grau and Ute Smit

 

Chapter 8. International peer collaboration in group work: Language quality, agency, and problem-solving

Maria Kuteeva and Kathrin Kaufhold

 

Chapter 9. A discipline-based analysis of language needs and challenges encountered in the Turkish EMI context

Dogan Yuksel and Mehmet Altay

 

Chapter 10. Disciplinary Biliteracy among Latiné Undergraduates in Engineering and Computer Science

Alberto Esquinca and Lidia Herrera Rocha

 

Part III: Teacher professional development and DLs in English-medium education

Chapter 11. Localising experiences of EME development: accommodating for disciplinary oracy at a Swiss bi- and multilingual university

Iris Schaller-Schwaner

 

Chapter 12. Creating synergy in teaching disciplinary literacies in Australian teacher education

Zuocheng Zhang

 

Chapter 13. A plurilingual genre-based approach to academic writing: guidelines for disciplinary-oriented teacher training in higher education

Guzmán Mancho-Barés, Alexandra Vraciu and Sarah Khan

 

Chapter 14. The elusive notion of disciplinary literacy in a cross-disciplinary context – A purloined letter of sorts

Magnus Gustafsson

 

Chapter 15. Navigating disciplinary literacies in search of beacons and shipping routes: a coda 

Christiane Dalton-Puffer

 

2023

Dafouz, E. & Smit, U (2023). Researching English-Medium Higher Education. Routledge.

 

Book chapters:

2025

Soriano-Flórez, I. & Dafouz, E. (2025, en prensa). Rethinking Biliteracy in Business and Economics English- medium Education: Students’ Views of Translingual Spaces. In Imaz Agirre, A. and Arias-Hermoso, R. (Eds.) (in press). Insights into Disciplinary Literacies: Multilingual Perspectives across Educational Levels. Multilingual Matters.

 

2023

Borrás, J. & López-Serrano, S. (2023). “How Can I Correct What I Don't Know?”: Exploring Low-Level Learners' Incorporation and Perceptions of Written Metalinguistic Explanations In Garcés-Manzanera, A. & Carrillo García, M. (Eds.), New Approaches to the Investigation of Language Teaching and Literature (pp. 60-81). IGI Global. 

 

2021

Hüttner, J., & Baker, W. (2021). The Different Faces of English-Medium Education: The Potential of ROAD-MAPPING in Comparing Sites. Manuscript submitted for publication. In E. Dafouz, & U. Smit (Eds.), English-medium education across multilingual university settings : Applications and critical evaluations of the ROAD-MAPPING framework Routledge.

Dalton-Puffer, C., Hüttner, J., & Smit, U. (2021). From voluntary to obligatory CLIL in upper secondary technical colleges: Teacher and student voices from a diverse landscape. In K. Talbot, S. Mercer, M-T. Gruber, & R. Nishida (Eds.), The psychological experience of integrating language and content: Teacher and learner perspectives (pp. 93-111). Multilingual Matters Ltd.

 

2022

Sánchez-García, D. (2022). The Elephant in the Room: Language Assessment in English-medium Education in Multilingual University Settings. In Osman Z. Barnawi, Mohammed S. Alharbi, & Ayman A. Alzahrani (Eds.), Transnational English Language Assessment Practices in the Age of Metrics. Routledge. (link to book here).

Smit, Ute & Komori-Glatz, Miya (2022). English-Medium Education in Austria: General Trends and Individual Initiatives in Institutional Policy. In: McKinley, Jim & Nicola Galloway (Eds). English Medium Instruction Practices in Higher Education: International Perspectives. Bloomsbury, 99-110.

 

Book reviews:

2021

Hüttner, J. (2021). REVIEW: Language Perceptions and Practices in Multilingual Universities Maria Kuteeva, Kathrin Kaufhold and Niina Hynninen (editors) London and New York Palgrave Macmillan 2020 Pp. xxii + 400 ISBN 978-3-030-38754-9Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2021.1926835

Soriano-Flórez, I. (2021). Review/Reseña: Paulsrud, BethAnne, Tian, Zhongfeng, & Toth, Jeanette (Eds.). (2021). English-medium instruction and translanguaging. Multilingual Matters [Review of the book English-medium instruction and translanguaging by B. Paulsrud, Z. Tian, & J. M. Toth (Eds.)]. E-JournALL, EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 8(1), 82 86. http://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.13.239