BALEAP Presentations and Papers Archive
PIM: 'EAP Practitioner'
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Event Programme and Abstracts
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Organiser's Summary
Maggie Ward-Goodbody (University of Bath) opened the day with an insightful overview of the last 15 years of TEAP from a BALEAP perspective and then Julie King (University of Nottingham) set the tone for the day with an excellent plenary on EAP teacher identity, our varying and sometimes conflicting senses of self, and the implications of this for us as individuals and as a sector. Julie recorded some pre-PIM thoughts on the new CELE blog, Teaching EAP. You can see her post here.
Parallel sessions took us into lots of participant-centred discussion on (e.g.) staff induction, CPD, observation, our roles with university departments, using technology to promote TD abroad with EAP professionals across the world, and our understanding of criticality, critical EAP and the power dynamics & politics of the roles we take.
Over an excellent lunch provided by the Three Tuns Hotel we heard about the exciting developments towards an individual EAP teacher accredited portfolio qualification. Garry Maguire (gmaguire@brookes.ac.uk) and the TEAP Working Party are looking for volunteers to pilot the draft award. Please contact Garry if you are interested in being involved. The pilot will run Jul 2012 to Dec 2013.
We also had a go at tweeting the event, with some success I think. For some of the summary messages that went out on sessions, please see here (NB: you will need to scroll down to 9 Jun). I was very encouraged to see several people open Twitter accounts over the weekend J, and get in touch, and also to see more established BALEAP members who already tweet also getting involved.
I think more of us need to do this more often, to establish a more dynamic online community of practice for EAP TD. People like Julie Moore and Alannah Fitzgerald (also session leaders at the PIM) are already doing inspiring work in this area and more of us need to become involved. More of this another time. I hope we will be taking this up at the November PIM in Southampton on Technology & EAP.Steve Kirk.
Bruce Howell
Durham University English Language Centre -
The Construction of Professional Identity in EAP: A Renewed Call for an Engagement with Criticality
Gary Riley-Jones ,Goldsmiths, University of London -
Action Research: EAP / subject specialist reflections on the journey so far…
Caroline Burns, Northumbria University Language Centre, Martin Foo ,Newcastle Business School -
Promoting Teacher Development in EAP. Where to begin?
Extended Abstract
Nicholas Northall ,Sheffield University
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Should we know what we’re talking about?
Susie Cowley-Haselden ,University of Leicester -
The politics of EAP: a new criticality?
Christopher Macallister ,University of Durham -
Teachers Managing Change
Fiona Elsted ,University of Essex -
TEAP CPD and New Technology
Garry Maguire ,Oxford Brookes University