English for Academic Purposes Practitioner @imperialenglish. PhD researcher @BirkbeckLCAL. Ethnographizing the heteroglossia of EAP. #tleap
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1 Nov 2024
Sorry to have missed this, anyone attend? Anti highlights? #tleap
Our PIM at Portsmouth is about to begin. We’re looking forward to discussing challenges & tensions in EAP Mats design.
If you’re live posting, use #PortsmouthPIM to share your thoughts.
Have a great day everyone!
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6 Oct 2024
Looks very useful for #tleap
Interesting points of comparison with @Michell04246373 and @alexanderding recent social theory book which has related aims.
teachinginhighereducation.wo…
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19 Sep 2024
Check out our chapter in Studies in Language Testing. Lots of useful work in this series for #tleap and assessment folk
19 Sep 2024
Volume 56 of the Studies in Language Testing series includes a chapter from me and @EdTedC about teachers working in #tleap assessment roles.
Lots of other interesting case studies in the volume, too.
Open access: cambridgeenglish.org/english…
@taf_sig @TEd_EAP
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📕SIG members @EdTedC & @RobPlayfair research lang assessment literacy, & how the TAFSIG Piloting Network can support #eap practitioners. cambridgeenglish.org/english… Then find out more about the (free!) network here: baleaptafsig.weebly.com/pilo… #tleap
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19 Sep 2024
Volume 56 of the Studies in Language Testing series includes a chapter from me and @EdTedC about teachers working in #tleap assessment roles.
Lots of other interesting case studies in the volume, too.
Open access: cambridgeenglish.org/english…
@taf_sig @TEd_EAP
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Rob Playfair retweeted
15 Sep 2024
1/4 @LaetitiaM19 and I have just submitted our manuscript to Palgrave and our book ' Recovering Language in Higher Education: Social Justice, Ethics and Practices' should be published in the next few months.
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13 Sep 2024
Despite only tweeting and liking the niche topic of #tleap my timeline on this app shows me anything but...
Where can online discussions happen now? Linkedin? BALEAP mailing list? Mastodon?
Missed this at the time but reposting as it's a good question with good thread so far.
19 Aug 2024
@AL_BALEAP and other #tleap colleagues - what would you say are the major contributions of Ac Lits to EAP? and conversely, what are the contributions of EAP to Ac Lits (if any)?
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10 Sep 2024
Needs analysis is associated with practical pedgogical outcomes: designing / evaluating a course.
Could it also be used for social critique?
Even Benesch's work was about working within existing educational systems, rather than as a study of the education system itself. #tleap
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3 Sep 2024
Many pre-sessional courses in the UK now have far fewer students than in pre-covid boom years.
How have the courses changed as a result of being smaller? less factory-like? more scope for experimentation / alt approaches? Smaller classes? Different institutional remit?
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Rob Playfair retweeted
29 Aug 2024
LLMs exhibit covert racism through dialect prejudice, showing even more negative biases against AAE speakers than humans: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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26 Aug 2024
An interview with Claudia Strauss about her book What Work Means.
Of interest to those of us in #tleap 'non-standard' employment, perhaps.
campanthropology.org/
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25 Aug 2024
Many in #tleap are studying part time. Maybe this is of interest.
Also this site they mention with personal accounts of part time doctoral researchers thrivingparttime.com/
@jodynic @universe_circus @NiamhMullen4 @danielanthonyos @jo_kukuczka @pace_ou
25 Aug 2024
Making your part-time doctorate work for you
#PhDchat wp.me/p4m9em-ckw
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14 Aug 2024
Van Dijk (2009) argues that social context has no direct influence on discourse.
Otherwise we would all do the same thing when on the same situation.
#tleap
#ethnography
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14 Aug 2024
He defines context as a subjective mental model based on what each person perceives as relevant in the social environment, mediated by their individual background.
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5 Aug 2024
Dissertation as podcast. And critique of graduate school.
@pace_ou #tleap
open.spotify.com/episode/0Qr…
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29 Jul 2024
Why bother theorising context?
I think this is a very important question for #tleap.
Context can easily be overlooked / downplayed leading to simplifications / unfounded generalisations.
But then, what theories of context can we use to avoid this?
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29 Jul 2024
Quote above from Kovala (2014) with a useful looking list of references.
degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
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23 Jul 2024
This connects to Hadley's 'professional disarticulation' when researching #tleap managers.
I haven't been in the field long enough to get a sense of a trend (decline or otherwise) but would be interested to hear perspectives of those who have.
23 Jul 2024
Why I coined the term ‘Pedagogy of Professional Decline’. If this bothers you too. Keep calling it out. leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/car…
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Rob Playfair retweeted
19 Jul 2024
The @baleap podcast sounds great! If you’d like to hear what me, @RobPlayfair & @jodynic thoughts after attending @KCLFoundations PIM: Collaboration, Power and Influence then definitely worth listening to ep 1 🎧 @IwonaPringle @lucy_worldwide ( co-presenters) get shoutouts🎙️
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