An EMI lecturer’s assessment practices with engineering laboratory reports
EMI assessment research designed to compare academic achievement in EMI and L1-medium courses aims to examine
language and content learning outcomes (Dafouz & Camacho-Miñano, 2016; Hernández-Nanclares & Jiménez-Munoz, 2015; Yang,
2015). However, these studies provide little insight into learning processes. A genre analysis perspective, in
contrast, can offer a deeper understanding of the development of student disciplinary literacy. Based on genre analysis studies on
student writing (Nesi & Gardner, 2012; Parkinson, 2017; Swales, 1990), we aim to describe the written genre in
student laboratory reports from an EMI course on a Mechanical Engineering degree programme. Seven students’ laboratory reports as
well as the lecturer’s instructions, the assessment rubric, and written feedback were examined using genre analysis. This case
study contributes to the emerging literature on assessment in EMI by foregrounding the advantages of genre analysis as an
analytical methodology and shedding light on students’ development of literacy in disciplinary writing.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Background
- Studies in EMI assessment
- Disciplinary literacy and genre
- Methodology
- The context and data collection process
- Data analysis
- Findings
- The educational purpose of the laboratory practical
- Analysis of the IMRD macro-structure
- Analysis of moves and steps
- Analysis of verb tense
- Analysis of written feedback
- Discussion and conclusions
- Acknowledgements
-
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