Tag Archives: EAP
Features of Academic English: a poster.
As I see it, one of the most important aspects of my role is to teach academic English. Of course, all subject teachers are teachers of academic English too, but I’m aware that they are sometimes unsure about this part of their role. To make a neat little list of structural (pink) and lexical (blue) […]
EAP Resources
Lizzie Pinard has a list of her top 10+ EAP Resources BALEAP’s list of EAP-related sites How to read and understand a scientific paper from Jennifer Raff’s blog, Violent Metaphors. Watch Jennifer MacDonald’s Getting Discipline Specific in the EGAP Classroom presentation from the BALEAP 2015 conference. Tyson Seburn’s Academic Reading Circles. Buy the book here. Visual Metaphors […]
All teachers are teachers of Academic English
I was lucky enough to secure a slot during a teachers’ meeting last week. Unfortunately it was just before an announcement giving details of a radical change to our timetable, so I know there were some anxious minds in the room. The main points I made were as follows: We all speak two Englishes – […]
What the ELT is this job?
I haven’t posted for a while, and that’s partly because there’s been a lot of changes going on. I’m back in the UK, for a start (Yes, of course I miss Spain!), and have landed a job in an area of ELT that’s new to me: teaching international students at a boarding school in the UK. […]
Adapting Academic Reading Circles for a short pre-sessional course
This has been Week 2, or the first full week (minus the bank holiday) of the pre-sessional course. The students have been learning about thesis statements and how to organise their ideas in their essays, what it means to participate in a seminar, how to get the most out of a lecture, and they’ve done a timed essay. […]
Teaching English For Academic Purposes: my first experience
For the last week I’ve been in delightfully dinky Durham. Three days were spent on a super well-organised and enjoyable induction course for the university’s PARSE (Preparatory Academic Research Skills and English) programme, after which I met my students, helped them get orientated and taught their first classes. EAP is something new for me and the […]
A Hive of Activities 