BALEAP Conference: Caution! EAP under Deconstruction

The BALEAP 2023 Biennial Conference was held at the University of Warwick, 19-21 April 2023.

Our hope with this conference is that we encourage a critical look at every aspect of EAP. We hope that the community will feel bold and brave enough to challenge the status quo, offering ideas, opinions, research, practices, and suggestions that can take the field in new directions. We often hear the same ideas from the same voices. We hope this conference will challenge the status quo, encouraging us to take apart EAP and act as a starting point to reconstruct the field into something more.

Please follow this link to access the Youtube playlist with a selection of videos from the conference.

Below are a selection of ppts from conference presenters:

Wednesday:

• An Example of EAP-informed Student Support and Teacher Education at a Developing EMI University in Lebanon (Hakim)
• International Students’ Affective Engagement with an EAP Pre-sessional
• Indoctrinate or disrupt_EAP practitioner perceptions of decolonisation
• Involving students in the assessment of their writing
• Are we reaching a TEAPing point.
• Curiosity and disruption lessons from a transdisciplinary exploration of writing styles at the Royal College of Art
• Putting Corpora to Work

Thursday:

• Will the next student essay be written by AI
• A Storm in a Teacup or a New Horizon for EAP
• From CET to EAP – teacher development in a transnational education setting
• Addition by Subtraction reducing overload to optimise learning for the knowledge economy
• ESP Genre Revisited Contributions Issues and Solutions
• Silo Busting in Academic Language a fresh look at the elements of academic language
• Feminism and EAP
• A study into how collaborative features in online spoken interaction may affect collective learning
• MultipleStakeholdersInCriticalEAP
• Turn and Face the Strange From EAP Tutor to Intercultural Trainer
• The Use of AI in Academic Writing
• Exploring Signature Pedagogies for EAP
• Deconstructing communicatioin skills
• The Grammar is Incidental
• Mediating a role for social justice in the activity of EAP teaching
• Q-ing up the Colloquial
• SWOT analysis
• Am I allowed– Disrupting academic norms…
• Beyond the Classroom Motivating Students to Engage through a Gamified Web App
• Critical Inquiry in Canadian EAP
• Give us a chance A call for greater focus on differentiated instruction on presessional courses
• That thing we don_t talk about_Community Open Session
• Care, emotions and feminism – Reading Group
• An exploration of impact scholarship and theory
• Accounting for the influence of epistemology
• Beyond The Text
• From Language to Skills Development_ Deconstructing EAP in Transnational University
• Deconstructing grant proposal summaries written by exiled Syrian academics
• Making the case for a curriculum infusion
• Grammar Past and Present
• Deconstructing CT skills provision
• BALEAP Funding winners
• Differing perceptions, differing expectations Who are EAP practitioners within academia
• Practitioner demands for a more socially just EAP
• Human Rights Project
• Why universities need a Language policy
• Shifting perceptions
• Deconstructing a writing course through independent, personalised learning
• Oral Academic Literacy for Seminar Learning
• Becoming socially just educators

Friday

• The proofreading of student writing differing perspectives, consensual policies
• The proofreading of student writing differing perspectives, consenual policies 2
• Contemplating Criticality
• RefugEAP Network Launch
• BALEAP Making MCQs More Intelligible
• Time to deconstruct needs analysis
• Making MCQs More Intelligible
• Twisting the Screw_the other way legitmising EAP differently
• That’s not it!
• MOOC
• Revisiting the language needs of students in English- medium universities
• Venturing out of my EAP comfort zone and making the familiar strange
• It’s a two way street Informing Irish Pre-sessional with a Needs Analysis of Irish HE
• Integrating CEL Initiatives into the EAP Classroom
• Integrating Culture into an EAP provision
• like a cog in a wheel – four lenses critical reflection on the summer pre-sessional
• Beyond Resilience
• Multimodal feedback tool for writing-to-learn_ teachers’ and students’ perceptions
• EAP genre paradox
• Strategies for reducing Rater Bias
• Troubling academic writing in the academy
• Reading Group Using Corpus Linguistics to understand the academic domain
• Can we talk about racism
• Transferring the benefits of community building from online to onsite
• Using Legitimation Code Theory to develop a practical framework to support the research intro writing
• Deconstructing the concept of essay creation can it be done in an oral mode
• PowerinCanadianEAP
• Deconstructing Pedagogic Practices peer reflection on using SFL
• Deconstructing research in BALEAP
• Deconstructing in-sessional underpinning theories and practical implications to define our EAP practice