BALEAP PIM: Speaking

At INTO Newcastle University, delegates have explored the changing role of speaking skills in a university setting.

1. Steve Walsh – Plenary
   Developing Classroom Interactional Competence across Disciplines – Slides
2. Gary Riley-Jones
   ‘I want to know what’s going on in their heads’: The Role of Speaking in Critical Thinking in Art Education and its Relevance to EAP. A Work in Progress – Slides
3. Blair Matthews
   Assessing Seminar Responses through Recorded Audio – Slides
4. Jing (Alice) Shan
   Chinese postgraduate students’ needs for oral participation in English in the UK – Slides
5. Katherine High
   Improving discipline-specific speaking skills for international foundation students – Slides
   
6. Chris Heady
   Small group consensus discussion tasks; Conversation Analysis driven criteria – Slides, Marking grid, Student version, Test
7. Elizabeth Allen & Christine Lee
   Talking about texts: Using Reading and Listening Circles to provide students with a meaningful purpose to engage with texts in seminars and presentations – Slides
   
8. Julie Hartill
   ‘English as a tool not just an objective’: developing interaction and autonomy on a pre-sessional course – Slides
9. Helen Grinsell
   ‘Making it real’: A practitioner approach to assessing international first-year undergraduate speaking skills – Slides
10. Georgina Lloyd & Pamela McIldowie
    Simulated consultations on a medical pathway programme: analysing what constitutes a ‘good’ performance- Slides
    
11. Katrien Deroey
    Designing personalized, interactive materials for presentation skills – Slides
12. Rebecca Welland
    Fostering critical and meaningful responses in student seminar discussions – Slides
13. Liz Chiu
    Pre-sessional assessment of spoken English for STEM postgraduates – Slides
14. Stephen Hughes
    Faculty perspectives on international students’ speaking skills: challenges; possible causes of challenges and how pre-sessional courses could help – Slides
    
15. Marion Heron
    ‘Communicating in a business-like way’: developing oracy skills in higher education – Slides