
ICLHE East Asia
Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education East Asia Regional Group
A forum for networking among people working in EMI and CLIL
ICLHE East Asia
Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education East Asia Regional Group
A forum for networking among people working in EMI and CLIL
ICLHE East Asia
Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education East Asia Regional Group
A forum for networking among people working in EMI and CLIL
What's New?
The 2025 ICLHE East Asia Symposium took place on 25th January, 2025 at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan. There were 19 enthusiastic attendees who were eager to discuss new EMI developments.
More details below
About Us
We are the East Asia Regional Group of the ICLHE Association. Our objective is to enhance collaboration amongst professionals based in East Asia interested in the integration of content and language in higher education
ICLHE East Asia
2024 Symposium
The 2024 ICLHE East Asia Symposium took place on 20th April at the University of Niigata Prefecture. The event saw a dynamic exchange of ideas among 19 onsite attendees and several members who joined virtually
Member News
Recent publications, projects, and presentations by members of ICLHE East Asia
If you have member news that you'd like to share, please contact us
New Book Chapter
Annette Bradford has a book chapter titled "Japanese Women Professors Traversing Internaitonalized Classroom Worlds" in a new volume about how affective factors mediate EMI edited by David Lasagabaster, Alberto Fernández-Costales, and Flor de Lis González-Mujico.
Interview
ICLHE East Asia Coordinator, Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo, was recently interviewed by Julie Walaszczyk as she joined the ICLHE Assocation board.
Book Chapter
Howard Brown and Annette Bradford recently published a chaper titled "From Dejima to Sustainable Enclaves of Internationalization: Reframing English-Medium Instruction Programs in Japan" in the volume "Contemporary Perspectives on English as a Medium of Instruction", edited by Hayriye Kayi-Aydar & Laura Mahalingappa.
Textbook
Eleanor Kane has textbook, "What is Language?A CLIL Course for Learners of English", which provides 15 scaffolded units progressing from lower order to higher order thinking skills.
Article
Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo co-authored an article in the International Journal of Educational Research titled "Academic success in English Medium Instruction programmes in Turkey: Exploring the effect of gender, motivation, and English Language proficiency".
Article
ICLHE East Asia leadership team member, Howard Brown, recently published a paper on employment trends in EMI programs in Japan.
Events, Calls & Programs
ICLHE Conference 2025
- The ICLHE Conference 2025 will take place in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- Dates: 24th to 27th September 2025
- Theme: EMInclusion: Integrating Language and Content for Egalitarian Higher Education.
- For details and registration, visit the event website here
The conference will focus on the complexities of EMI/OLMI (Other Languages as a Medium of Instruction ) and welcomes contributions that incorporate other languages to enrich discussions about ensuring equitable participation in HE. By bringing educators, researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders together, the conference seeks to promote meaningful conversations and collaborations that go beyond linguistic/content boundaries.
J-CLIL
The J-CLIL association has various events upcoming in 2025.
Find the full list here: More details
CLIL & EMI Training Programs
- EMI professional development for lecturers, professors, academics and researchers offered by Oxford EMI. More details
- CLIL courses for Teachers and Administrators offered by Bridge. More details
- EMI training program for lecturers or teachers in higher education offered by Monash College. More details
A Q&A with...
Interviews with ICLHE practitioners and researchers about their latest work
We talk to Stephen McNamara of Kwansei Gakuin University about work on CLIL
interview by Mahboubeh RakhshandehrooWatch the video interview here
Stephen McNamara is a PhD Candidate at the University of Vienna, where his research focuses on the integration of cognition, discourse, and function, in undergraduate intercultural CLIL syllabi. His research findings have been presented across Japan, as well as in Europe and Asia. Stephen has worked in language-learning contexts in Japan for around twenty years and is currently an instructor of English as a Foreign Language at Kwansei Gakuin University.
He is also a reviewer for the Asian Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning (Asian CLIL), as well as for The Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT) PanSIG.His publications include:
- Pilot: cognitive ciscourse functions in interculutral studies lessons. Kwansei Gakuin University Humanities Review (28). (2023)
- A tale of two syllabi: towards theory driven CLIL. PanSIG Journal. (2022) (with M. Griffiths)
- Locating content, language, and cognition in a CLIL art history biography activity. The Journal of the Institute of Language and Culture, Konan University. (2021)
Program Spotlight
Special Topics in CLIL Courses
Kwansei Gakuin University, School of Policy Studies
by Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo,
Kwansei Gakuin University
Special Topics CLIL courses are part of an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program offered by the Department of Policy Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. Unlike the usual EAP courses in this department, the Special Topics courses do not follow a strictly coordinated curriculum. It is the instructor's responsibility to select an appropriate course topic, define clear goals and objectives, design the curriculum, and develop effective materials.
Second-year, higher-(language-ability)-stream students are required to take one Special Topics in the spring and one Special Topics in the fall. Most of these courses are taught by full-time instructors, but part-time teachers may also have the opportunity to teach one. The courses are primarily content-based, hard CLIL while integrating and recycling the EAP skills the students have acquired in the core skills courses. Unlike the EAP courses, students are not divided into courses based on their English proficiency. Students are given the option to self-select the special topics course that interest them (based on the course descriptors); those who miss the registration deadline are placed at random. Therefore, these courses are mixed levels (within the higher stream). To meet the needs of a wide range of learners, instructors are encouraged to develop curricula and materials that are flexible enough to accommodate a broad range of abilities. Among the topics covered in CLIL courses are English Translations of Japanese Literature, International Relations, Internalization of Higher Education, and Science of Health and Happiness.
What Are We Reading?
Research about EMI, CLIL, plurilingual & internationalization reviewed by our members - click the image to read
April 13, 2020Leadership Team
Coordinator
Mizuka Tsukamoto
Lecturer,
Ryukoko University
Co-Coordinator
/Treasurer
Yoko Kusumoto
Associate Professor,
Tokyo University of Technology
Events Leader
Howard Brown
Professor,
University of Niigata Prefecture
Newsletter Editor
Maria Vassileva
Associate Professor,
Nagoya University
Social Media Coordinator
Graham Mackenzie
Project Associate Professor,
Sophia UniversityWebsite Coordinator
Annette Bradford
Associate, Oxford EMI
Community Outreach - Japan
Keiko Tsuchiya
Professor,
Yokohama City University
Community Outreach - Vietnam
Tho Doan Vo
Lecturer,
University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
Community Outreach - Thailand
Banchakarn Sameephet
Lecturer,
Khon Kaen University
Community Outreach - Taiwan
Yun-yin Huang
Assistant Professor,
National Tsing-Hua University
Connect With Us
To become a member of the ICLHE Association, click here and visit the association website. Benefits include member-only webinars and events, and access to a worldwide network of ICLHE professionals.
We, the East Asia Regional Group, publish a newsletter four times a year and send out announcements about our events. If you'd like to receive the newsletter, sign up here:
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