Leafy, walkable, medieval Durham is inviting you onto campus for our PIM on Friday, June 30th, 9.30 – 4pm. We’ll be exploring how HEIs, and EAP / ESP teachers and high-stakes assessment course designers are responding to the latest advances in AI tools available to our students. Neural Machine Translation seems to be moving texts […]
PIM: Multimodality in EAP Contexts 3rd November 2023 @ 9:30am - 4:30pm Heriot-Watt University is inviting you to an online PIM about Multimodality in EAP contexts. Multimodality: “the investigation of diverse modes of communication and their expressions” (Bateman 2014). What can multimodality mean in our context? What is the impact of digital texts on academic and professional […]
In this event, we will briefly (re)-launch the book and article review initiative by the Research and Publication Baleap subcommittee. As part of this initiative, Dr Alex Ding will be delivering an engaging session on the topic of book reviews: 'Book reviews are often considered as marginal, a luxury, an indulgence, and a waste of time. Certainly, of little […]
*Please note that this event is now fully booked* It will, however, be recorded so that those who don't have a ticket will be able to view the recordings at a later date. Additionally, due to the high demand for tickets, the sessions will be re-run in the future. Please keep an eye on the […]
'Exploring the realities endured by students labelled international: Insights from interculturality and higher education' Dr Ramzi Merabet Date: 21st Feb from 14.00 to15.30, ZOOM Brief Overview This talk will draw on a recently completed doctoral research to critically examine the experiences of students labelled international and the implications resulting from the ongoing process of hyper-internationalisation […]
King’s Foundations (KCL) invites you to join us at our Strand Campus or online to discuss issues of collaboration, power and influence within EAP and higher education. As EAP professionals our work relies on effective collaboration across and beyond the university. However, our willingness to collaborate may not always be reciprocated by faculties, students […]
BALEAP AGM 2024 The AGM will be held on 19th April 2024 Time: 11:00 - 12:30 Location: Zoom AGENDA: 1 Welcome Apologies Declaration of conflict of interests 2 Minutes of AGM 21/04/2023 to be declared true and accurate record 3 Matters Arising from AGM 21/04/2023 4 Executive Committee Elections results: Research and Publications Officer (April […]
Title: What is always being done, no matter who is doing it? An institutional ethnography of language and race on UK pre-sessionals Abstract: This talk is based on the early stages of my doctoral research into UK pre-sessional courses. I will introduce institutional ethnography (IE), which looks at the everyday work that goes on inside an institution […]
TAFSIG (Testing, Assessment and Feedback SIG) Event FREE Online Event Please see the flyer below for more details: Link to register: https://forms.gle/yUCPphzagVyYCAYe6
Date and Time: 11 May 2024, 10:30-15:30 Location: University of Manchester PROGRAMME OUTLINE 10:30-11:00 Registration, tea and coffee 11:00-11:25 Welcome / introductions / the working definition of ‘context’ in BAS / the purpose of the context document (Appendix 6.2) / updates to the BAS handbook 11:30-11:55 Invited talk + Q&A (1) – Mapping three […]
