Otávio Rezende
PhD in Business Administration
Lecturer of Intl Business and Foreign Trade
Fields of interest: Internationalization of companies, Corporate Strategy and Social Network Analysis
Location Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil
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I move around and wave my arms very much indeed during my class sessions!
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I hope I can identify differences when teaching in my mother tongue or using EMI... Let's see!
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Hey, guys, you have done a very good job. Still taking the course... I got late, but planning to finnish it. Learning a lot and it will be quite useful for me. Thanks a lot!
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I think, in this case, is advisable to ask students to prepare essays beforehand, so that they bring doubt and check words at home. Besides that, ask students to answers questions brought by their colleagues.
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Sharing knowledge must be the uptmost rule in a classroom. So, if you are not there to compete with your students (and you should not), then use this as a resource to have a better experience with the group.
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We are in the very beginning of the university internationalization program. So far, only English, other than Portuguese, of course, is the language used to offer different subjects. As from the next semester, courses in Spanish will be also offered. At the moment, policy on how to behave during classes using EMI are being collectively built. We tend to use...
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Sometimes I do use, sometimes I do not... Depends on the audience. One must be careful when trying to be funny in intercultural groups where the probability of being misunderstood is high..
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I usually pick up some key words regarding the subject to be discussed during the meeting. And I think the concordancer may be helpful for teaching. I am planning to use games as a tool for teaching....
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I would recommend to take a look at how lessons are prepared in an English speaking environment and adapt that to your context. Prepare classes based on exchanging experiences between studentes, focused on the subject. Read and take courses on EMI. Practice EMI learning in the classroom....
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EMI concerns more to pedagogy than to language skills... Great advice! Copy that!
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On one video, he is comfortably speaking to native speaker. On the other, there is an audience of French journalists. Besides that, in the latter case, he seems to have had lived in France for a while and got used to hear French people speking English. You can notice he shows (French) body language when speking slowly to French journalists. Sounds funny.
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It is very true we, not native speakers of English, have difficulties speaking some words. At the moment, I can remember having difficulties with the work "focus". Mostly because of the difference between north Americand and English people speak. I mean, in Brazil, it is more common to be familiar with nort American accent, and because of that, most of the...
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Interesting point. Recently, I've had a notice from a student telling me to speak a specific word in a more intelligeble way. I thank her for the hint. But, in general, it seems it is working well...
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Communicating in speech is context dependent. In this case, you build your text at the same time you are speaking. Besides that, your speech envolves body language, what says a lot about the message you are working on...
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This is e very important issue for me. I am much more than a tipical Brazilian-latinamerican-italiandescendent = speak too loud! You can't even imagine when teaching in English. I give much emphasis when I speak and it is good for the classroom atmosphere, but could be with a bit lower voice. I am trying hard to control it, though it is not easy. Brazilian...
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@GraceJoplin Hi there! I lecture Global Business in Brazil. We, Brazilian people, have a very strong accent when we speak English. I've heard that many times, and once in London, when I was introduced to a Filipino friend's cousin who used to have a Brazilian roomate, the guy said it was almost like hearing him talking... Personally, I do not mind accents...
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This is a challenge to make students who are not English speakers to speak up in the classroom. Some have been my students in the past and it was not easy to keep them quiet when the class was in Portuguese Language. But when it comes to speak English, they say they are shy. Creating a relaxed environment, so that they feel confident to speak up their ideas is...
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From my perspective, it is not easy to change the way we speak, even if it is a foreign language. I tend to speak loud and in a very enthusiastic way. What I usually have to do is to lower my voice speak slower...
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After watching some of the videos, you notice that everyone has it own style and one must find his own way of lecturing.
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I have found this lecture of a professor from the American University of Bulgaria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH80d9VzcNc). Besides speaking very good English, he organizes the subjects on the board and recommends to ask for the concept of "tricky words" in German, since this is a "German nominated class". He seems really confortable lecturing for the group.
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I am quite familiar with this type of structure to organize a lecture.
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These are some websites I usually visit to prepare lessons:
https://www.aeseducation.com/
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At the end, both are the same, since they express opionions that are not based on scientific scrutiny...
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I hope to understand how to speak in a foreign language, to foreign students, economic theories or market trends....
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Hi Zou, How is it going?
This US newly undergrad student is not much of a talkative... I have to use the same techniques with her I use with Brazilian students, in order to make her speak up...
She has never criticized the way I speak. In fact, it seems quite common for her to her the accent of a non-native english speaker. What I usually to with her, and... -
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I surely will do some extra readings regarding the topic. So far, it is still blurred, but slowly becoming clearer the importance of teacher's intermediation in the classroom in order to let people talk about the subject proposed. I intend to follow all units of the course till the end...
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My question to Mary and Rob is: to what extent EMI is taken as as formal methodology for teaching in higher education? What capacities should I try to develop in order to successfully use EMI when teaching Global Biz (or whatever subject I would like to)?
Am anxious to see your response tomorrow.
Thanks in advance.
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Usually I seek for key workds on the theme proposed and think about a way to make the students work togheter, promoting the discussion in the classroom, flipping the classroom structure. This process of preparing classes is a bit different from the one I use to do it in portuguese.
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I can tell, through my experience on teaching global business using EMI, that it suites quite well for me. In fact, it worked even better than I expected. A special moment in classroom happened when I decided to organize a role-play about negotiation and had my 35 sudents discussing negotiatioin points, giving the best they could, to beat the opposite teams....
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Accuracy is linked to specific concepts, which should not be taught wrongly. As I can see, the closer you speak as a native, the better results you will have with your students. Specially in terms of respect and legitimation. But I try to let them see it is ok to speak (and they always will) as a foreigner. But, discussing specific subjects requires accurate...
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It is amazing the way understanding happens when you work in a group with different levels of english knowledge. Of course, this depends much more on the teacher's skills than the students will and openness to learn. Class preparation should consider learning objectives and promote and develop communication skills
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When reading the text, specially at the sceptical position, I could not avoid thinking about agency. The latter was mentioned at the position 3 - negotiator, which I quite agree. There are good and bad things related to globalization, and there is no doubt that neo-liberal ideologies not only promotes it, but also strengthen income distribution around the...
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As I have already mentioned in previous comments, I am working on a subject already offered in our native language, but now in English in order to enhance the internationalization of our university. As professor Kristina said, universities are competing in a global scale and need to operate in such competitive environment. In order to achieve my goals, I am...
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The challenge involving EMI, besides dealing with students from several fields of study, is their ability to speak English. In the university where I work there is no evalation on the student's fluency in the English language. For this reason, we have a classroom with different levels of knowledge, what demands from the lecturer an ability to unite, involve...
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Since I work with Global Business, a theme that can be applied to several fields, I have students from diferent minos/majors in my classroom. It varies from Psychology to Engineering, or International Relations. I can feel that working on subjects, like International Economy to so many different students has been the main chalenge so far.
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Hello, everyone!
I am a PhD in Business Administration and work as a lecturer in a univeristy which has the name of my hometown - Centro Universitário Belo Horizonte - UNIBH. Thise semester we are offering the course of Global Business. It is a project related to the internationalization program of the university and I am giving these classes in English....
