Developing a Collaborative Lesson Planning Tool in EMI

Turkey provides EMI researchers with a unique context that has roots of teaching academic subjects formally through languages other than Turkish (L1), going as far back as the mid-19th century. To date, however, lecturers and students still face challenges when teaching/learning through a language other than their L1. This chapter describes a project conducted in Turkey to promote collaboration between content subject teachers and language teachers in EMI classrooms. Language teachers from the English language preparatory programmes and content-subject teachers from disciplinary departments were provided with a Collaborative Lesson Planning Tool in facilitating collaboration between content and language teaching in EMI classrooms. Reflective interviews were conducted to evaluate the usefulness of the collaboration tool. The teachers discussed factors that affected the effectiveness of joint collaboration between content and language teaching and their challenges in teaching at Preparatory Year Programme.