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 often hear the same ideas from the same voices. We hope this conference will challenge the status quo, encouraging us to take apart EAP and act as a starting point to reconstruct the field into something more.


Recordings

A selection of talks from the Conference are available on our YouTube Channel:

BALEAP 2023 YouTube Playlist


Proceedings 

The proceedings were published in the first edition of the BALEAP Journal of Research and Practice.


Presentation Slides Wednesday 19th April

An Example of EAP informed Student Support and Teacher Education at a Developing EMI University in Lebanon

Are we reaching a TEAPing point?

Involving students in the assessment of their writing

Curiosity and disruption lessons from a transdisciplinary exploration of writing styles at the Royal College of Art 

Indoctrinate or disrupt? EAP perceptions of and engagement with decolonisation of the field

International students' affective engagement with EAP Pre-Sessional Course

Putting Corpora to work


Presentation Slides Thursday 20th April 

Will the next student essay be written by AI?

A Storm in a Teacup or a New Horizon for EAP

From CET to EAP - teacher development in a transnational educational setting

Addition by subtraction = reducing overload to optimise learning for the knowledge economy

ESP Genre Revisited - Contributions, issues and solutions

Silo Busting in Academic Language - a fresh look at the elements of academic language

Feminism and EAP

A study into how collaborative features in online spoken interaction may affect collective learning

Multiple Stakeholders In Critical EAP

Turn and Face the Strange From EAP Tutor to Intercultural Trainer

The Use of AI in Academic Writing

Exploring Signature Pedagogies for EAP

Deconstructing communication skills

The Grammar is Incidental

Mediating a role for social justice in the activity of EAP teaching

Q-ing up the Colloquial

SWOT analysis

Am I allowed– Disrupting academic norms…   

Beyond the Classroom Motivating Students to Engage through a Gamified Web App

Critical Inquiry in Canadian EAP

Give us a chance A call for greater focus on differentiated instruction on pre-sessional courses

That thing we don't talk about -Community Open Session 

Care, emotions and feminism – Reading Group 

An exploration of impact scholarship and theory 

Accounting for the influence of epistemology

Beyond The Text

From Language to Skills Development_ Deconstructing EAP in Transnational University

Deconstructing grant proposal summaries written by exiled Syrian academics

Making the case for a curriculum infusion 

Grammar Past and Present

Deconstructing CT skills provision

BALEAP Funding winners

Differing perceptions, differing expectations Who are EAP practitioners within academia

Practitioner demands for a more socially just EAP

Human Rights Project

Why universities need a Language policy 

Shifting perceptions

Deconstructing a writing course through independent, personalised learning

Oral Academic Literacy for Seminar Learning

Becoming socially just educators


Presentation Slides Friday 21st April  

The proofreading of student writing differing perspectives, consensual policies part 1, part 2  

Contemplating Criticality

RefugEAP Network Launch

Making MCQs More Intelligible

Time to deconstruct needs analysis

Twisting the Screw the other way legitimising EAP differently

That’s not it!

A teacher Professional development MOOC   

Revisiting the language needs of students in English-medium universities

Venturing out of my EAP comfort zone and making the familiar strange

It’s a two way street Informing Irish Pre-sessional with a Needs Analysis of Irish HE

Integrating CEL Initiatives into the EAP Classroom

Integrating Culture into an EAP provision

Like a cog in a wheel – four lenses critical reflection on the summer pre-sessional

Beyond Resilience 

Multimodal feedback tool for writing-to-learn: teachers’ and students’ perceptions

EAP genre paradox

Strategies for reducing Rater Bias

Troubling academic writing in the academy

Reading Group Using Corpus Linguistics to understand the academic domain

Can we talk about racism

Transferring the benefits of community building from online to onsite

Using Legitimation Code Theory to develop a practical framework to support the research intro writing

Deconstructing the concept of essay creation can it be done in an oral mode 

Power in Canadian EAP

Deconstructing Pedagogic Practices peer reflection on using SFL

Deconstructing research in BALEAP

Deconstructing in-sessional underpinning theories and practical implications to define our EAP practice