03/09/2020
Meet our first plenary speaker!
Joyce Kling, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the multilingual, multicultural classroom, with particular emphasis on foreign language use in English medium instruction (EMI) contexts. She has investigated non-native English speaking (NNS) lecturers’ professional identity in a Danish EMI setting from a teacher cognition paradigm. Since 2009, Dr. Kling has been active on the development and implementation of TOEPAS, the Test of Oral English Proficiency for Academic Staff. She draws on the TOEPAS in relation to her research and professional development training for NNS lecturers. She has published several articles and chapters on EMI and language assessment and is the co-author of English Medium Instruction in Multilingual and Mutlicultural Universities (Henriksen, Holmen and Kling, 2018) and co-editor of Integrating Content and Language in Multilingual Higher Education (Dimova & Kling, forthcoming).
Dr. Kling currently serves on the Board of Trustees of TIRF (The International Research Foundation for English Language Education) and the Board of the ICLHE Association (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education). She has also been an active member of TESOL Association for the past 30 years and served on the TESOL Board of Directors from 2006-2009.