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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.

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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 SocSci S0.21Helen Beech • Angela Xia ‘Silo busting’ in academic language research: A fresh look at the elements of academic language WAC theatreProfessor Alex Ding • Ian Bruce

10:40am IST

Tea and coffee WAC Foyer

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 S0.19Dr 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 S0.21Jennifer MacDonald

12:10pm IST

A Matter of Critical Deconstruction or of Critically Taking Stock? A Qualitative SWOT Analysis of EAP. FAB 5.03Professor Douglas 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 WAC theatreDebra 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 LUNCH WAC Foyer

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 S0.19Jill 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 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 S0.18Iwona Winiarska-Pringle Critical Inquiry in Canadian EAP: political economy, curriculum breadth, and assignment design SocSci S0.20James Corcoran • Karen Englander • John McGaughey

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

4:00pm IST

Tea and coffee WAC Foyer

4:30pm IST

BALEAP - BAS WAC theatreDr Lia Blaj-Ward (BAS Chair) BALEAP Research Funding winners - the stories so far. SocSci S0.18Dr Weronika Fernando • Alexander Black • Melissa Ferrin • Aleks Palanac • Deirdre McKenna Deconstructing critical thinking skills provision: the normative and the transformative. SocSci S0.20Catherine Mitsaki • Qian Zhang Differing perceptions, differing expectations: Who are EAP practitioners within academia? SocSci S0.11İlkem Kayıcan Dipcin • Merve Karabulut Baykan What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! Practitioners demands for a more socially just EAP. FAB 5.01Wil Hardman • Lorraine Mighty • Iwona Winiarska-Pringle 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

5:40pm IST

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

7:30pm IST

DINNER - 3 course meal - Wine sponsored by Duolingo Panarama Suite - Rootes Building