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This paper reports on the findings of a contrastive study exploring the use of teacher questions to gauge their cognitive demand and potential for triggering interaction between classroom participants. The data consists of a corpus of 16 lectures given in Spanish and English (eight of each) from two subjects in a Business Administration degree. Results show similarities and differences in the use of teacher questions in Spanish and EMI contexts, and highlight the importance of language awareness to help lecturers notice the impact of their discourse on students' learning.

This article explores the relationship between teacher questioning practices and pedagogical objectives in Spanish- and English-medium lectures. The results obtained from the analysis of 16 lectures delivered by the same two university teachers both in Spanish and English reveal that the use of questions could be exploited more effectively for pedagogical purposes. Consequently, this paper tries to raise teachers’ awareness of the role of questions upon their teaching and their students’ learning process.

In the last 25 years, the topic of learning strategies has attracted a great deal of interest, quite often to analyse the use first (L1) and second language (L2) learners make of these strategies and how they can be helped to improve strategy knowledge. Although it is true that there has been considerable research on strategies, a smaller number of studies have attempted to explore the strategies that learners use in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) contexts, and even fewer when learning a third language (L3). This article seeks to fill that gap by reporting the findings of an intervention study into reading comprehension among young learners of English as an L3 in a multilingual (Spanish-Basque-English) context in the Basque Country.

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