BALEAP 2023 conference

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BALEAP 2023 conference

Welcome to BALEAP 2023 - Caution! EAP under DEconstruction
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 have a range of formats that afford greater participation. We hope to hear new voices, offering perspectives on how we might break with tradition and disrupt norms. We encourage you to get involved and share your visions of how the field might be dismantled and reconstructed.

1:00pm IST

SIG Fayre WAC Foyer

2:00pm IST

Deconstructing spoken communication in the creative disciplines FAB 5.01Jennifer Sizer • Clare Maxwell • Clare Carr • Emma Lay • Jane Vickers • Zoe Gazeley-Eke TedinEAP SIG SocSci S0.11Dr. Carole Macdiarmid • Stella Bunnag • TedinEAP TEL SIG: Lessen materials, not lesson materials: Strategies for decluttering the digital classroom SocSci S0.18 Deconstructing student needs in EAP for STEM SocSci S0.20Aaron Woodcock • Ana Vučićević • Sanchia Rodrigues • Natasha Rust • STEM SIG Deconstruction or Co-construction? Towards a closer collaboration between EMI and EAP scholarship SocSci S0.21Heath Rose • Nicola Galloway • Ursula Wingate • Angela Hakim Curiosity and disruption: lessons from a transdisciplinary exploration of writing styles at the Royal College of Art. SocSci S0.19Siân Lund • Sarah Blair Putting corpora to work: applications of corpus tools in the EAP classroom FAB 5.03Vera Duncanson • Robert Spink Reconnecting Soul and Role: A Circle of Trust for EAP Practitioners Warwick University ChaplaincyMichèle le Roux

3:50pm IST

Are we approaching a TEAPing point?: A qualitative study on managing quality in EAP SocSci S0.13Daniel White Exploring wellbeing and emotion labour in EAP: An exploratory study SocSci S0.19Christine Muir • Sam Barclay Indoctrinate or disrupt? EAP practitioner perceptions of and engagement with decolonisation of the field SocSci S0.11Rowan Murray International Students’ Affective Engagement with an EAP Pre-sessional Course SocSci S0.18Dr Ide Haghi • Brian Doonan Involving students in the assessment of their writing: The use (and misuse) of assessment criteria in EAP SocSci S0.20Dr Phil Smyth Stigmatised identities in EAP: how we ‘manage expectations’ to effect our agency SocSci S0.21Sarah Taylor

4:40pm IST

Room 101 WAC theatre

5:30pm IST

Meet and Greet - Welcome Drinks WAC Foyer

9:00am IST

A welcome un-plenary from Guy McElveny WAC theatreGuy McElveny

9:50am IST

A storm in a teacup or a new horizon for EAP? Implications of the Office for Students Directive on SPaG SocSci S0.20Liz Molyneux • Eliot Wright Addition by Subtraction: Reducing Overload to Optimize Learning for the Knowledge Economy SocSci S0.17Kassandra Robertson Derrida and EAP: how deconstruction can support the development of EAP learners' critical reading and thinking skills SocSci S0.11Olga Burakov Ecological validity of assessment on foundation year SocSci S0.13Sebastian Lesniewski From the College English Test (CET) to English for Academic Purposes (EAP): teacher development in a transnational education (TNE) setting SocSci S0.18Jin Li • Feng Zhong • Alex Runchman Genre Revisited: Contributions, Issues and Solutions SocSci S0.19Philip Nathan Will the next student essay you mark be written by A.I.? Implications of the recent A.I. technology development on the future of the teaching of EAP writing skills FAB 5.03Helen Beech • Ling Angela Xia ‘Silo busting’ in academic language research: A fresh look at the elements of academic language SocSci S0.21Alex Ding • Ian Bruce

11:20am IST

A study into how collaborative features in online spoken interaction may affect collective learning SocSci S0.18Janine McNair Challenging 'acceptable reading strategies': reframing multimodal affordances for academic reading in EAP SocSci S0.20Jody Bradford Deconstructing first-year L2 undergraduates’ early experiences with writing academic assignments. SocSci S0.17Katarzyna Maciag Feminism and EAP SocSci S0.21Dr Yolanda Cerda Shifting the focus from disciplinary EAP: the case for interdisciplinarity SocSci S0.11Jennifer Skipp • Kashmir Kaur Shouldn’t pre-sessionals be inclusive of all? FAB 5.03Heléna Stakounis Turn and Face the Strange: from EAP practitioner to intercultural trainer SocSci S0.13Heather McClean What do students need? What does the institution need? Accommodating Multiple Stakeholders in Critical EAP Programme Design SocSci S0.19Jennifer MacDonald

12:10pm IST

A Matter of Critical Deconstruction or of Critically Taking Stock? A Qualitative SWOT Analysis of EAP. FAB 5.03Douglas Bell Deconstructing communication skills: a competency framework for Foundation healthcare students using CEFR (2020) mediation skills. SocSci S0.17Margaret Russell Exploring signature pedagogies for EAP: Problems, principles and practices SocSci S0.21Steve Kirk Mediating a role for social justice in the activity of EAP teaching SocSci S0.20Dr Paul Breen • Katherine Mansfield Q-ing up the colloquial: a place for quotidian language in the EAP paradigm? SocSci S0.13David (Deak) Kirkham The grammar is incidental SocSci S0.19Helen Hickey The Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Academic Writing: Implications for EAP SocSci S0.18Debra Jones • Neil Adam Tibbetts The Writing Trap: Learning to Write about the Visual Arts SocSci S0.11Jennifer Blunden

1:00pm IST

BALEAP - name change WAC theatreConrad Heyns

2:00pm IST

Am I allowed?' Disrupting academic norms, conventions and 'rules' with postgraduate writers and supervisors SocSci S0.21Sherran Clarence • Steve Kirk Blurring the boundaries between teaching EAP and teaching the subject specialism SocSci S0.18Jill Northcott That thing we don’t talk about: Facilitating and assessing student collaborative assignments WAC theatreAveril Bolster • Peter Levrai Are you talking to me?: East Asian students willingness to participate in open class interactions (online and face-to-face) SocSci S0.11Mirena Nalbantova Beyond the Classroom: Motivating Students to Engage with Academic Texts and Language through a Gamified Web Application SocSci S0.13Frank Lauterbach • Ella Dovhaniuk • Tobias Thelen Exploring the effectiveness of VR educational technology in EAP speaking practices at EMI context SocSci S0.13Mengqi Hu • Airong Wang • Rui Xu Give us a chance! A call for greater focus on differentiated instruction on pre-sessional courses. SocSci S0.11Caroline Fletcher Care, emotions and feminism: what can they tell us about EAP? SocSci S0.19 Critical Inquiry in Canadian EAP: political economy, curriculum breadth, and assignment design SocSci S0.20James Corcoran • Karen Englander • John McGaughey Unpicking genres: Deconstructing and exploring the hybrid nature of written assessment genres in art and design disciplines. FAB 5.03Emma Lay • Clare Maxwell

3:10pm IST

Accounting for the Influence of Epistemology on Research Writing: The Occluded Dimension SocSci S0.21Ian Bruce An exploration of impact, scholarship and theory WAC theatreLaetitia Monbec Beyond the Text: Integrating Tasks and Actions in EAP SocSci S0.20Chris R Smith Deconstructing grant proposal summaries written by exiled Syrian academics: Genre analysis and pedagogical materials for inexperienced researchers SocSci S0.13Ahmed Halil • Maggie Charles • Michael Jenkins • Karin Whiteside Deconstructing reflective writing for summative assessment and designing a new resource to scaffold student development SocSci S0.18Micky Ross • Aneta Marren From Language to Skills Development: Deconstructing EAP in Transnational University SocSci S0.19Saida Radjabzade • Saida Akbarova • Liliya Makovskaya Making the 'case' for a curriculum infusion: linking academic course content to diversity and inclusion topics SocSci S0.11Vicky Collins • Daniel Devane UK Teacher Opinions of Grammar in EAP: Past and Present FAB 5.03Kaitlinn Flower

4:30pm IST

BALEAP - BAS WAC theatreBAS Officer - Lia Blaj-Ward BALEAP Research Funding winners - the stories so far. SocSci S0.18Aleks Palanac • Deirdre McKenna Deconstructing critical thinking skills provision: the normative and the transformative. SocSci S0.20Catherine Mitsaki • Qian Zhang Deconstructing the EGAP ESAP dichotomy: SocSci S0.21Maxine Gillway Differing perceptions, differing expectations: Who are EAP practitioners within academia? SocSci S0.11İlkem Kayıcan Dipcin • Merve Karabulut Baykan What if .....? SocSci S0.19Susie Cowley-Haselden Human Rights Project as an Extracurricular Activity for English Language Learners in a University Setting FAB 5.03Tuğba Yıldırım Kumbasar Using Toulmin’s model to develop academic argument skills. FAB 5.01Jenny Kemp

5:40pm IST

An introduction to Journal of English for Academic Purposes - your questions answered WAC theatreHilary Nesi A Different Sort of Presentation: Teaching the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) FAB 5.01Ramona Tang Becoming socially just educators: a trioethnogrpahic study of exploring professional identity through dialogue, ethics of care and creativity FAB 5.03Tomasz John • Lorraine Mighty • Iwona Winiarska-Pringle Claiming a seat at the table: navigating a university change project to reconstruct EAP in a new curriculum - collaboration and complicity SocSci S0.20Hannah Jones Deconstructing a writing course through independent, personalised learning SocSci S0.18Katrien Deroey • Jennifer Skipp Oral academic literacy for seminar learning: forgotten in the goldrush? SocSci S0.11Dr Simon Webster Shifting perceptions: Establishing common ground for more effective integration of EAP Practitioners in academia SocSci S0.19Michael Thomas • Kassandra Robertson Why Universities need a Language Policy and What’s EAP got to do with it? SocSci S0.21Bee Bond • Dr Yolanda Cerda

9:00am IST

Contemplating Criticality SocSci S0.18James Lamont EAP curriculum for social change: Theory and Practice SocSci S0.19Jo Kukuczka What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! Practitioners demands for a more socially just EAP. SocSci S0.11Wil Hardman • Lorraine Mighty • Iwona Winiarska-Pringle An honest conversation between University Directors - where do we think we are heading? SocSci S0.20Gavin Dodsworth RefugEAP Network Launch SocSci S0.13Aleks Palanac • Tomasz John • Jonathan Birtwell • Sadie-Jade Fouracre-Reynolds • Eva Hanna The proofreading of student writing: differing perspectives, consensual policies SocSci S0.21Nigel Harwood • Fiona Richards Making Multiple Choice Questions More Intelligible: The Development of a Post-secondary Training Program to Support non-EAP instructors teaching Multilingual Students FAB 5.01Jennifer Lightfoot • Daniel Riccardi Time to deconstruct needs analysis? FAB 5.03Rob Playfair

10:10am IST

Designing a collaborative EMI and EAP teacher professional development MOOC for vocational Indonesian higher education teachers SocSci S0.19Dr. Carole Macdiarmid • Michael Budzenski • Sofia Di Giallonardo • Nicola Galloway • Nurmala Simbolon Feedback as pedagogy: consistency makes way for principled variability SocSci S0.13Maxine Gillway It’s a Two-way Street: Informing Irish Pre-sessional EAP Programs with a Needs Analysis of Irish Higher Education FAB 5.03Jessica Garska Online testing: exploring the use of automatically generated exercises in an adaptive test. FAB 5.01Graham Shipman Revisiting the language needs of students in English-medium universities SocSci S0.18Ramsey Cardwell • Ben Naismith That’s not it! Exploring practitioners' understandings of Flipped Learning in an online presessional course. SocSci S0.20Paula Villegas Twisting the screw the other way: Legitimising EAP differently SocSci S0.21Alex Ding • Laetitia Monbec Venturing out of my EAP comfort zone and making the familiar strange: a practitioner reconstructed in collaboration with the disciplines SocSci S0.11Jeni Driscoll

11:30am IST

Beyond Resilience: Facilitating Learning and Well-Being in the Refugee Language Classroom SocSci S0.18Aleks Palanac EAP genre paradox SocSci S0.11Dr Milada (Millie) Walkova Focus on product and process in argumentative writing instruction: students’ perceptions FAB 5.03Lijun Yin Integrating Community Engaged Learning Initiatives into the Academic English Classroom: An Opportunity for Students to Grow as Language Learners and as Global Citizens SocSci S0.21Jennifer Lightfoot • Daniel Riccardi Integrating culture (academic and social) into an EAP provision: A case study of an international induction programme. SocSci S0.20Jennifer Cowell • Meghan Bowling-Johnson Multimodal feedback tool for writing-to-learn: teachers’ and students’ perceptions SocSci S0.13Iroda Saydazimova • Kholida Begmatova • Liliya Makovskaya Strategies for reducing rater bias FAB 5.01Peter Davidson “…like a cog in a wheel”: a ‘four lenses’ critical reflection on the summer pre-sessional. SocSci S0.19Adam Donnelly

12:20pm IST

BALEAP - TEAP SocSci S0.18Paul Hendrie Can we talk about racism? An exploration of EAP practitioners’ views on implementing critical, social justice texts on the EAP curriculum. SocSci S0.13Wil Hardman Transferring the benefits of community building in teaching EAP online to onsite. SocSci S0.11Michelle Nixon • Kamil Stobiecki Troubling academic writing in the academy: a conversation about more than writing SocSci S0.21Amanda French • Julia Molinari Reading group: Using corpus linguistics to understand the academic domain SocSci S0.19Ben Naismith • Ramsey Cardwell TNE: emerging conversations SocSci S0.20Liz Wilding • Sofia Di Giallonardo • Jennifer MacDougall • Stella Bunnag • Samantha Wilson Using Legitimation Code Theory’s Semantic Gravity to develop a practical framework to support the research into writing process for EAP students. FAB 5.03David Munn One step forward, two steps back - Let's not lose the gains we made during the pandemic! FAB 5.01Guy McElveny

1:40pm IST

AGM WAC theatre

2:50pm IST

Deconstructing in-sessional: underpinning theories and practical implications to define our EAP practice SocSci S0.11Neil Adam Tibbetts • Lisa Hanson • Paul Hendrie • Katherine High • Debra Jones Deconstructing Pedagogic Practices: Peer Reflections on Using SFL in Doctoral Writing Instruction SocSci S0.19Nadya Yakovchuk • Karin Whiteside Deconstructing research in BALEAP: How might we reconstruct it to better serve new purposes? SocSci S0.18Maggie Charles Deconstructing the academic journey of doctoral scholarship as an LGBTQ student. Is it time for a queering of academic literacies? SocSci S0.13Micky Ross Exploring EAP Practitioners' Agency & Identity from Social Class Perspective: reflections from a South Asia Context FAB 5.03Tanzeela Anbreen • Samina Ayub Power and the Canadian EAP Practitioner: A Multiethnography SocSci S0.20Jennifer MacDonald • James Corcoran • Jonathan Mendelsohn • Leo Gomez ‘Deconstructing the concept of essay creation. Can it be delivered in an oral mode?’ FAB 5.01Katia Dowdle

3:40pm IST

A reverse panel with the BALEAP 2023 Organising Committee WAC theatre