Abstract : English has reached a privileged position in most European higher-education institutions as part of a recent internationalization process. This new scenario implies, among others, revisiting language teaching practices at different levels, including English-medium instruction (EMI) programs, to offer students opportunities to develop their communicative competence. As a response to this process, Universitat Jaume I offers an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course intended for doctoral students. The major aim of this EAP course is to improve doctoral students’ ability to communicate through various academic genres. One of these genres is conference presentations (CPs), considered a key text type in academia. This genre is conceived as particularly challenging and face-threatening. This is especially true in the case of novice researchers who are not only faced with the need to use English but also to organize discourse accurately from a linguistic/metadiscursive and a multimodal perspective. Due to the complexity of performing CPs, in this study, we present the pedagogical approach adopted to teaching such a genre within the EAP course previously mentioned. In addition, to illustrate how students make use of organizational metadiscourse from a multimodal viewpoint, two representative simulated student-CPs from this course are examined.
