English Medium Instruction: Support For Students and Professors in Social Sciences Education

This paper presents specific reference tools (Barrios, Lopez-Gutierrez & Lechuga, 2016) where we found that neither institutional language integrated support nor a specific language plan was being provided by the bilingual programme. This runs counter to experts' opinion who claim the need of such a plan. While studies show the importance of language support in bilingual instruction, they rarely address specific content professors' needs tending to remain distant from real teaching contexts. The educational Innovation Project provides professional development for subjects taught through the medium of English. The title "Support for students and professors" means moving into the reality of the classrooms to address specific needs of this specific academic see:mono. We examine how language support has a dual focus that includes both students and instructors (Griffith, 2012). The paper concludes with a reflection on interdisciplinary innovation projects that provide professors with the tools to ensure the quality of bilingual programmes.