In 2023, EAP was put under deconstruction. In 2025, we are celebrating EAP as co-construction.

While EAP practitioners share a commitment to enhancing the international student experience, we may find ourselves very differently positioned and/or valued by our institutions. BALEAP 2025 invites an exploration of unique positionings, ‘third spaces’, and collaborative projects that reach across and beyond the university.

The conference aims to explore questions such as:

  • What does it mean to engage in co-creation in EAP teaching and research?
  • How are participation, voice and agency linked?
  • What are the conditions of possibility for collaboration across disciplines and among participants who are differently positioned within institutions or society?

 

Recordings 

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

BALEAP 2025 YouTube Playlist

Presentation Slides

Monday:

Keynote

Hybrid Teaching and Collaborative Learning in EAP

TNEast Community Collaboration Intercultural Communication

Developing the EMI Corpus of Student Academic Reading & Writing:
Addressing challenges in a large-scale, transnational collaborative project

Social Justice SIG

Co-designing an award for students as cocreators of impactful learning experiences at university

Liquid ideas, solid communities third space writing and the construction of professional selves

The AI-Powered Hub: Present-Proofing Academic Writing Support

BALEAP STEM SIG EAP Hacks

The EAP Open Classroom

Taking the next step – sharing thoughts on EAP related doctoral research

Tuesday:

Conference Welcome - John Curnow

Feminism x EAP at BALEAP 2025

Intercultural Competence Training What Why How

Loosening the Gordian Knot of Collaborative Assessment 

Leveraging Generative AI tools in EAP

Navigating Third Spaces: A Philosophical Approach to EAP Co-Construction

Seeing Kindness in our work with International Students

Co-creation and Collaboration

Students’ Participation and Perceptions of L2 Vocabulary Learning and Diagnosis Using Chatbot-Assisted Dynamic Assessment (CA-DA) as a Personalized Lexical Inferencing Tool

Creating a pedagogy of collaboration from within the EAP community

All Ears: A Preliminary Study on The Motivation for and Implications of Student Use of Speech-to-Text Interpreting Software for Academic Communication

Searching for a common language - a story of collaboration across disciplines

Enhancing EAP Provision through BALEAP Accreditation: Reflections and Impact

The Challenges and Triumphs of Collaboration: Co-designing a Professional English Programme with West African Universities

Engaging with a Student Research Panel: A Pathway to Inclusivity and Co-Creation in EAP

The Joys of Collaboration - the journey from EAP practitioner to PhD candidate

Assessing second language pragmatic competence for intercultural communication: Test localisation and co-creation targeting UK pre-sessional students

Fostering assessment literacy via scaffolded peer review and formative feedback cycles

From stories and poems to academic writing: transforming the writing experience

Collaboration in EMI and EAP: Collaboration is the Equator

How we learned to stop worrying and thrive in the third space

Adding value to embedded in-sessional support: collaborating beyond the faculty

Liquid Cafe What are the current themes and issues in EAP for doctoral education?

EAP in the lab - experiments in writing physics

Practice-based dissertations: Exploring the relationship between practice and writing

Working for, with, and on: Collaboration across disciplines, departments, and individuals for a transformative insessional provision

Co-creating a module of study for a community of higher-level students

Co-constructing the Plurilingual Experience: From EAP Pathway Program to Undergraduate Studies in STEM

1+1 is more than 2: cross-disciplinary collaboration for EAP and TNE materials creation

Students' accounts of their own academic literacy and oracy development

Continuing Professional Development: Mapping the landscape

Reading Hidden Histories: Discovering, unlearning and reframing beyond the EAP classroom

An EAP tutor's view of co-creation in teaching and research

Our Ideal Pre-sessional

Taking Advantage of washback from authentic lecture response listening tests

Collaboration for English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP): building cross disciplinary communities in transnational education

Getting even more specific in ESAP teaching: collaborating with research groups leads within BSc Chemistry and Physics research projects

Reconfiguring the distribution of the sensible: towards co-creation and equality in higher education assessment

The Oral Defence in EAP assessment

The Trials of Studying Law: A Collaborative Project to Scaffold First Year Law Students' Transition to University

A tale of two cities

Teaching specific disciplinary content within academic language provision: collaborative risks and creative possibilities

Building a TEAP Fellowship Application

Co-creating EAP through a third space: A collaborative Virtual Exchange Project for Intercultural and Digital Learning between China and South Africa

Wednesday

A new approach to conceptualising multilingual students' authorial voice in academic writing

Academic Writing - a collaboration between AI, the writing teacher and the student

Access to literature for EAP practitioners

An exploration into workshops on research paradigms as part of postgraduate EAP provision

As easy as pi? A collaboration between mathematics and EAP lecturers to co-create vocabulary learning materials  

Beyond Feedback - Coaching Conversations in Student Tutorials 

Broadening our horizons: co-creating Beyond EAP

Can I get a little more source: academic online search and EAP

Co-constructing a EAP pre-sessional in Education with Subject and EAP specialists and students input

Co-construction of knowledge in EAP - Reflections on developing a community of practice around language at the university

Co-creating Academic Success - investigating the impact of generative AI Tools on Collaborative Academic Writing for EMI Students

Collaboration in EAP transnational Settings: A work in Progress

Collaborative Showcase BALEAP 2025

Creating an Academic Skills Centre - the story so far

Creating knowledge collectively through group talk

Critical perspectives on participation voice and agency

Developing an academic introduction module for international students

Empowering pre-sessional students as investigators of their own disciplines

Examining the use of AI for EAP assignments among undergraduates

Fostering agency through dual mode presentations in humanities 

From circles into spheres - creative and collaborative enrichments of EAP practitioner identities

From vision to reality - the journey of setting up an EAP department from scratch

Helping Students with the Vocabulary of their maths lectures

Collaborative reflections on the 'Leading in EAP' Course

Inclusive Language for the Service Design community - co-creation of an open-resource toolkit for staff and students

It takes two - reflections from early careers' researchers

Language for Art and Design Online Course

Languages Cafe

Leading EAP - tales from the wild frontier of UK Higher Education

Learners Collaborative Video Production - key competencies for the attention economy era

LSP to construct reflective practice in a shifting landscape

Making Space to Belong - postmodern Co-creativity 

Maximising the co in academic coursework and assessment

Navigating new academic spaces - empowering year 1 students through growth mindset curriculum

Not Just Playing Catch Up Empowering Agency In Repeat-year Students Via A Community-focused Academic Support Programme

Plenary: How does it feel to be a problem

PowerPoint Presentations across Disciplines - a collaborative interaction in the Dept of Political Science

Professional Services in Partnership with EAP Practitioners Lightning talk

Rethinking EAP's role in Assessment in the age of GenAI - a multidisciplinary perspective from an EMI institution

So, you teach English Some thoughts on how we are positioned by others and how we position ourselves

Speculation innovation and embodied thinking in Art and Design

Staff perspective of student voice and its (in)authenticity in reflective writing for summative assessment

Teacher Development - Creating Asynchronous Discussions Across Disciplines

Teaching students how to collaborate with AI effectively and appropriately through an AI integrated EAP module

The Hello Project 

The many faces of provision and assessment - stakeholders in an EAP context

They are the future us-enhancing the international student experience through alumni interviews

They only do it to make our lives easier a look at attitudes towards the use and non-use of preferred names in the international classroom

Unlocking Academic Success - co-creation in boosting learner engagement

What are the conditions of possibility for collaboration across disciplines and among participants who are differently positioned within institutions or society