I recently attended a BALEAP Professional Issues Meeting (PIM) hosted online by my former colleagues at Heriot-Watt University. The subject of the PIM was Multimodality, not something I knew much about or had given much thought to. The day really opened my eyes to the ways this concept could be interpreted. Here are some thoughts on the presentations I attended.
My definition of EAP practice and the underlying approaches to text and scholarship.
I’ve started this blog as a retirement project because I’m planning to leave the institution where I work in a year or two but I’ll want to keep a connection to the practice of EAP. What I’ll miss most when I retire will be the interaction with EAP students in a Higher Education (HE) context, together with the opportunities to design materials, tasks and lessons based on authentic academic texts and purposes. I hope this blog will enable me to reflect on my own practice in EAP before I finally take the retirement plunge.
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