Sharing and promoting disciplinary competences for university teaching in English: voices from the University of Jyväskylä language centre’s TACE programme
Westerholm, K., & Räsänen, A. (2015). Sharing and promoting disciplinary competences for university teaching in English: voices from the University of Jyväskylä language centre’s TACE programme. In J. Jalkanen, E. Jokinen, & P. Taalas (Eds.), Voices of pedagogical development : expanding, enhancing and exploring higher education language learning (pp. 131-157). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2015.000290
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The internationalisation of universities often means that the language of
learning and teaching needs to be changed – at present most commonly
to English. Apart from English-speaking countries, then, most European
universities offer their degree programmes in a language that is not the first
language of either the students or the teachers. This challenging situation
is also the reality in Finland and at the University of Jyväskylä. Many
Finnish universities have set up supporting infrastructures to deal with the
new challenges, particularly in their international master’s programmes. In
this article we describe the TACE programme, which has been run by the
Language Centre on an annual basis since 2010, and in a modular form since
2005. Starting with the framework, rationale and research-based framework
for our TACE programme in intercultural university pedagogy, we then move
to describe its content and practices as well as report some ‘voices from
the floor’, that is, perceptions and experiences of the interdisciplinary and
international group of teaching staff who have participated in the programme.
Finally, some concluding remarks, challenges and benefits are presented.
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