Language, Assessment & Disciplinary Specialism in UK-China TNE Conference

Keynote Speakers

Professor Jim McKinley, University College London 

Jim McKinley, SFHEA, is Professor of Applied Linguistics at University College London. He has taught in higher education in the UK, Japan, Australia, and Uganda, as well as US schools. His research targets implications of globalization for L2 writing, language education, and higher education studies, particularly the teaching-research nexus and English medium instruction. Jim is co-author and co-editor of several books on research methods in applied linguistics. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the journal System, and a co-Editor of the Cambridge Elements series Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press).

Professor Heath Rose, University of Oxford

Heath Rose is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. He is the coordinator of the English Medium Instruction Research Group and runs the wider EMI Oxford Research Network. Heath’s research interests are situated within the field of language teaching and language learning. He has published books on Global Englishes, research methods, and data collection. He is series co-editor of Cambridge Elements in Language Teaching. Before moving into academia, Heath worked as a language instructor in a range of settings in Australia and Japan.

Invited Speakers

John Airey, Stockholm University and Uppsala University

John Airey is Professor of University Science Education at Stockholm University and Reader in Physics Education Research at Uppsala University. In his PhD, John examined the consequences of using two languages (Swedish and English) to teach undergraduate physics in Sweden. Today, his research focuses on social semiotics and the development of disciplinary literacy. John examines the teaching of physics through the medium of written and spoken languages, mathematics, diagrams, graphs, simulations, computer code, hands-on experimentation, observation, etc. By understanding how these various semiotic systems work together to create disciplinary knowledge, we can better understand how to teach our students.

Katrien Deroey, University of Luxembourg 

Katrien Deroey is a Professor in Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching at the multilingual University of Luxembourg, where she is Head of English at the Language Centre and a linguistics lecturer. As a corpus linguist and EAP practitioner, her main research interests are lecture discourse and lecturer training for English Medium Instruction. She guest-edited a special issue of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes entitled 'Lecture discourse and lecturer training', which also contains her article ‘English medium instruction lecturer training programmes: content, delivery, ways forward’ (2023). Her interest in lecture discourse and lecturer training dates back to twenty years ago, when she was tasked with creating a course for English medium lecturers at Ghent University (Belgium). Before joining the University of Luxembourg, Katrien taught linguistics and EAP in the UK, Belgium and Vietnam.