NEWS
September 23, 2022 - Ron Martinez and colleagues from U.S. Department of State English Language Programs launch Academic English Specialists at AcademicEnglish.com
The new enterprise will help universities around the world with their internationalization efforts. Services include editing and coaching for academic writing, courses for writing for academic publication, and training for faculty in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI). There are features that are still to come on the website, including tools for scholars around the world that need support with their academic speaking and writing. You can visit the new website here.
September 23, 2022 - Ron Martinez and colleagues from U.S. Department of State English Language Programs launch Academic English Specialists at AcademicEnglish.com
The new enterprise will help universities around the world with their internationalization efforts. Services include editing and coaching for academic writing, courses for writing for academic publication, and training for faculty in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI). There are features that are still to come on the website, including tools for scholars around the world that need support with their academic speaking and writing. You can visit the new website here.
NEWS
July 17, 2021 - Ron Martinez and colleagues from U.S. Department of State English Language Programs launch Academic English Specialists at AcademicEnglish.com
Dr. Ron Martinez has joined the editorial team at Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press) as the new Associate Editor. Ron will draw on his professional expertise and network in and around (especially) corpus linguistics, vocabulary, phraseology, academic writing, English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) and English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) to help get good research on timely topics out to a broad readership.
July 17, 2021 - Ron Martinez invited by prestigious journal 'Applied Linguistics' to be new Associate Editor
Dr. Ron Martinez has joined the editorial team at Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press) as the new Associate Editor. Ron will draw on his professional expertise and network in and around (especially) corpus linguistics, vocabulary, phraseology, academic writing, English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) and English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) to help get good research on timely topics out to a broad readership.
July 17, 2021 - Ron Martinez and colleagues from U.S. Department of State English Language Programs launch Academic English Specialists at AcademicEnglish.com
Dr. Ron Martinez has joined the editorial team at Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press) as the new Associate Editor. Ron will draw on his professional expertise and network in and around (especially) corpus linguistics, vocabulary, phraseology, academic writing, English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) and English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) to help get good research on timely topics out to a broad readership.
July 17, 2021 - Ron Martinez invited by prestigious journal 'Applied Linguistics' to be new Associate Editor
Dr. Ron Martinez has joined the editorial team at Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press) as the new Associate Editor. Ron will draw on his professional expertise and network in and around (especially) corpus linguistics, vocabulary, phraseology, academic writing, English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) and English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) to help get good research on timely topics out to a broad readership.
June 7, 2021 - Just published: New chapter on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education
"Language Use in English-Medium Instruction at University: International Perspectives on Teacher Practice" (David Lasagabaster & Aintzane Doiz, Eds.), published by Routledge, brings together insights from research and scholars’ practical experience on the role of language and language use in teacher practices at the university level in EMI contexts, offering global perspectives across diverse educational settings. The lead chapter is from Ron Martinez and coauthors Paola Machado and Candida Palma, entitled "An exploratory analysis of Language Related Episodes (LREs) in an EMI context: Lecturers' and students' perspectives.
The volume considers the language-related practices, processes and ways of thinking implemented in EMI contexts as teachers and students co-construct meaning through interaction while also situating these observations within the wider educational policies of institutions, societal norms and contextual pedagogies. The book highlights both the diversity and commonalities of the challenges and opportunities in enhancing student experience in different EMI contexts, drawing on international perspectives spanning South America, Europe and Asia. In so doing, the volume offers a comprehensive portrait of the current realities of the EMI experience at the university level, empowering stakeholders to critically reflect upon and adapt their classroom strategies to their own realities and chart new directions for research in the field. The book will be of particular interest to scholars interested in issues in English-medium instruction, applied linguistics, language policy and language education, as well as those currently teaching in EMI contexts.
To learn more about the book, you can check out the Routledge website here.
The lead chapter, by Ron Martinez, Paula Machado and Candida Palma, is entitled "An exploratory analysis of Language Related Episodes (LREs) in a Brazilian EMI context: Lecturers’ and students’ perspectives"
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October 1, 2020 - Ron Martinez hosts new Writing Center series sponsored by U.S. Department of State
To commemorate the launch of the Academic Writing and Research Development (AWARD) initiative -- the new writing center initiative created by Ron Martinez, with support from grants from the U.S. and Brazilian (Paraná state) governments -- writing center directors and researchers representing six different US institutions will deliver a series of webinars, from October 2020 to May 2021. The series is intended to deepen and expand the growing network of writing centers in Brazil, with a special emphasis on supporting graduate writers. The events will be streamed on the "Writing Centers of Brazil" Facebook group page, which Ron Martinez created and has members from all over the world. You can watch an updated playlist of the series below, and read a spotlight on one of the speakers here.
Dr. Martinez will host writing center directors and researchers from six different U.S. universities from October 2020 to May 2021
PAST NEWS
July 16, 2020 As a Writing Specialist, Dr. Ron Martinez has been selected by the U.S. Department of State for an English Language Specialist assignment in Russia. The U.S. Department of State announced the selection of Dr. Ron Martinez, director of the writing center and professor at the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil, for a ten-month English Language Specialist project focusing on supporting the international publication of Russian scientific research. The project, entitled "Teaching Genre in the Writing Center," builds on a national writing center program originally created in conjunction with the Regional English Language Office, the Russian Writing Centers Consortium. The training Dr. Martinez will provide will aim to build capacity in Russian universities to help scholars publish their research in international English-medium academic journals. You can see a sample of the class here.
June 8, 2020 Dr. Ron Martinez has created a new course for UC Berkeley's Summer English Language Studies program (part of the College Writing Program). The 10-week class (delivered remotely), entitled "Writing for Academic Publication," is designed to help students develop a manuscript they intend to submit for publication (for example, in a scholarly journal). A sample of the course is available to view here at the UC Berkeley b-courses environment.
February 7, 2020 New publication: "Development of a Teacher Training Course for English Medium Instruction for Higher Education Professors in Brazil" in the volume "Teacher Training for English-Medium Instruction in HIgher Education." See more info here, and you can download the full chapter here.
September 12, 2019 New publication: "Integrating Corpus Tools into Mixed Methods Research" in the volume "The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics," edited by Jim McKinley and Heath Rose (Routledge). See full details
July 2, 2019 Ron Martinez is a (temporary) faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley! UC Berkeley's College Writing Program holds a summer session and Dr. Martinez will be teaching there until the end of August. See more here
June 26, 2019 Ron Martinez is at the University of Oxford to present fresh results that address the question "Is there a minimum level of proficiency in English to teach in a higher education EMI context?" More on the event here
June 11, 2019 The writing center created by Ron Martinez at UFPR (Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica - CAPA) has inspired the creation of a new center in the south of Brazil. Read more
June 6, 2019 Due to the success of the pioneering English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) teacher training program started by Ron Martinez at UFPR in 2016, the department of distance education (CIPEAD), in a special agreement between UFPR and the seven state universities of Parana, launched the very first Brazilian hybrid EMI training course, coordinated by Ron Martinez and taught by Ane Cibele Palma and Daniel Persia. See more here
December 7, 2019 The very first seminar on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in Brazilian higher education was held at the Universidade Federal do Parana (UFPR). The event, organized by Ron Martinez, showcased the classroom practices of Brazilian EMI professors and featured nationally and internationally-respected EMI researchers. Read more
November 14, 2018 Ron Martinez has been awarded a grant by the British Council to research issues of language proficiency in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI). The research will be conducted in partnership with Cambridge University Assessment in the United Kingdom. Find out more here
February 4, 2018 New article published: "Specially in the last years...": Evidence of ELF and non-native English forms in international journals. (In the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 33).
September 1, 2017 Ron Martinez invited by the Post-Graduate Office (PRPPG) to deliver a special course on Academic Writing in English, aimed at preparing graduate students from UFPR to publish in English. See more here.
March 20, 2017 Ron Martinez and Denise Abreu e Lima, president of the Brazilian national program Idiomas sem Fronteiras (Languages without Borders), have embarked on a new partnership that aims to bring the concept of UFPR's Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica (CAPA) to scholars all over Brazil. Read the full report (in Portuguese).
October 7, 2016 Ron Martinez is the founder and creator of Brazil's first real university writing center. The Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica (CAPA) will help students and professors from not only the Federal University of Paraná, but all over Brazil. People who need help with any kind of academic writing, including research articles in English to be submitted to international scholarly journals, will now have a free place to turn to. Find out more about the launch here.
July 18, 2016 The University of Oxford comes to the Universidade Federal do Paraná for the first time in the history of the university to run a special training course on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI), coordinated by Ron Martinez. Read more about the course here.
August 12, 2016 New article by Ron Martinez and Karin Graf on English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) issues at the Federal University of Paraná. The study, entitled 'Thesis supervisors as literacy brokers in Brazil' is the first of its kind at UFPR in that involved interdisciplinary research collaboration between Ron Martinez of the Humanities (the Department of Modern Foreign Languages, DELEM), and Karin Graf of Materials Science (the Department of Mechanical Engineering, DEMEC). The article has been published this month in a special edition of the journal 'Publications' focusing on issues of non-native speakers of English (edited by Margaret Cargill) who need to publish their research internationally.
June 8, 2020 Dr. Ron Martinez has created a new course for UC Berkeley's Summer English Language Studies program (part of the College Writing Program). The 10-week class (delivered remotely), entitled "Writing for Academic Publication," is designed to help students develop a manuscript they intend to submit for publication (for example, in a scholarly journal). A sample of the course is available to view here at the UC Berkeley b-courses environment.
February 7, 2020 New publication: "Development of a Teacher Training Course for English Medium Instruction for Higher Education Professors in Brazil" in the volume "Teacher Training for English-Medium Instruction in HIgher Education." See more info here, and you can download the full chapter here.
September 12, 2019 New publication: "Integrating Corpus Tools into Mixed Methods Research" in the volume "The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics," edited by Jim McKinley and Heath Rose (Routledge). See full details
July 2, 2019 Ron Martinez is a (temporary) faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley! UC Berkeley's College Writing Program holds a summer session and Dr. Martinez will be teaching there until the end of August. See more here
June 26, 2019 Ron Martinez is at the University of Oxford to present fresh results that address the question "Is there a minimum level of proficiency in English to teach in a higher education EMI context?" More on the event here
June 11, 2019 The writing center created by Ron Martinez at UFPR (Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica - CAPA) has inspired the creation of a new center in the south of Brazil. Read more
June 6, 2019 Due to the success of the pioneering English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) teacher training program started by Ron Martinez at UFPR in 2016, the department of distance education (CIPEAD), in a special agreement between UFPR and the seven state universities of Parana, launched the very first Brazilian hybrid EMI training course, coordinated by Ron Martinez and taught by Ane Cibele Palma and Daniel Persia. See more here
December 7, 2019 The very first seminar on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in Brazilian higher education was held at the Universidade Federal do Parana (UFPR). The event, organized by Ron Martinez, showcased the classroom practices of Brazilian EMI professors and featured nationally and internationally-respected EMI researchers. Read more
November 14, 2018 Ron Martinez has been awarded a grant by the British Council to research issues of language proficiency in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI). The research will be conducted in partnership with Cambridge University Assessment in the United Kingdom. Find out more here
February 4, 2018 New article published: "Specially in the last years...": Evidence of ELF and non-native English forms in international journals. (In the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 33).
September 1, 2017 Ron Martinez invited by the Post-Graduate Office (PRPPG) to deliver a special course on Academic Writing in English, aimed at preparing graduate students from UFPR to publish in English. See more here.
March 20, 2017 Ron Martinez and Denise Abreu e Lima, president of the Brazilian national program Idiomas sem Fronteiras (Languages without Borders), have embarked on a new partnership that aims to bring the concept of UFPR's Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica (CAPA) to scholars all over Brazil. Read the full report (in Portuguese).
October 7, 2016 Ron Martinez is the founder and creator of Brazil's first real university writing center. The Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica (CAPA) will help students and professors from not only the Federal University of Paraná, but all over Brazil. People who need help with any kind of academic writing, including research articles in English to be submitted to international scholarly journals, will now have a free place to turn to. Find out more about the launch here.
July 18, 2016 The University of Oxford comes to the Universidade Federal do Paraná for the first time in the history of the university to run a special training course on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI), coordinated by Ron Martinez. Read more about the course here.
August 12, 2016 New article by Ron Martinez and Karin Graf on English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) issues at the Federal University of Paraná. The study, entitled 'Thesis supervisors as literacy brokers in Brazil' is the first of its kind at UFPR in that involved interdisciplinary research collaboration between Ron Martinez of the Humanities (the Department of Modern Foreign Languages, DELEM), and Karin Graf of Materials Science (the Department of Mechanical Engineering, DEMEC). The article has been published this month in a special edition of the journal 'Publications' focusing on issues of non-native speakers of English (edited by Margaret Cargill) who need to publish their research internationally.
