SIG - Ted in EAP: Developing Discourse Knowledge: 2 Professional Development Initiatives
12th March 2026 from 09:00-10:30
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This presentation aims to discuss the various ways EAP practitioners' discourse-related knowledge-base can be developed to support teachers' activities in scholarship and student education including curriculum design practices. We take two example CPD initiatives focused on social semiotics and LCT discourse analysis, in the University of Leeds (UoL) and the University of Bristol (UoB) to discuss their aims, ethos, merits and impact. In UoL, one CDP initiative is through a scholarship strand on disciplinary discourse analysis which focuses on collaborative knowledge-building and interdisciplinary scholarship projects. The strand provides colleagues with workshops and collaborative discourse analysis activities in support of their interdisciplinary scholarship. In UoB, the development of teachers’ knowledge base has been approached within the context of curriculum development, foregrounding academic literacy on an International Foundation Programme (IFP). This has involved the development of a ‘toolkit’ with both a linguistic (SFL) and a sociological (LCT) lens. Presenting these two UK HE contexts will allow us to contextualise CPD within specific cultures and constraints and to discuss how this influences the nature and scope of the CPD initiatives, including the type of expertise developed, and the structure of the CPD programme.
Laetitia Monbec
Grant Hartley
Michelle Evans
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