Preparing lecturers for English-medium instruction

To support NNS lecturers who teach in English, Evelyn van de Veen1 and Renate Klaassen developed a set of courses at Delft University of Technology in which pedagogical, intercultural and language skills needed for effective teaching in English are trained in an integrated manner (Klaassen, 2003). These courses have been running since 2002, and so far about 200 lecturers have followed them. This paper will report on an evaluation of the courses.
In this paper we will focus on the evaluation of two of our courses: a module which introduces participants to the problems of teaching and learning in a foreign language, and the linguistic and pedagogical approaches one may take
to deal with them and a module in which English language skills and teaching strategies for the second-language classroom are developed in an integrated manner. By means of a survey we investigated how they have experienced our
courses and assessed the relevance of the courses. Additionally, we conducted a follow up survey in which lecturers were asked which elements of the courses lecturers use the most in practice, which changes they made after following the
courses, and what effects those changes have on their teaching behaviour.