Description
This talk examines the evolving relationship between English-Medium Instruction (EMI) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in multilingual educational contexts. As EMI expands globally—particularly across Asia—teachers continue to face challenges in supporting students’ disciplinary literacy while balancing content learning with language development. At the same time, emerging tools such as ChatGPT are reshaping how teachers design learning materials, scaffold disciplinary language, and support students’ engagement with complex academic texts.Drawing on recent empirical research conducted in EMI classrooms in Hong Kong and mainland China, the talk explores how teachers exercise pedagogical agency when integrating generative AI into their teaching practices. The discussion highlights several classroom cases in which teachers used ChatGPT to address language-related challenges, generate instructional materials, and support students’ disciplinary reading and writing. The findings illustrate that the impact of GenAI in EMI classrooms depends not merely on the technology itself, but on how teachers evaluate its affordances, adapt its outputs, and integrate them into context-specific pedagogical practices.
Rather than positioning AI as a replacement for teachers, the seminar argues that generative AI can function as a context-sensitive pedagogical partner, supporting language-content integration and disciplinary literacy development in EMI classrooms. The talk concludes by discussing implications for EMI research, teacher professional development, and the future integration of AI-supported pedagogy in multilingual higher and secondary education.
| Period | 7 May 2026 |
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| Event title | 2026 International Conference on English medium Education (EME) |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ChinaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |