JALT PanSIG 2025 Conference

Empowering EAP Writers:

Writer-Centered Prompt Design with LLMs

The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) PanSIG 2025 Conference was held on May 17–18 at Kanda University of International Studies (神田外語大学) in Chiba. This year’s theme was “Agency & Autonomy in Language Learning.”

I presented a session titled “Empowering EAP Writers: Writer-Centered Prompt Design with LLMs,” which explored effective strategies for designing prompts in Large Language Model (LLM)-supported English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing. The presentation emphasized a writer-centered and ethical approach, demonstrating how prompts tailored with specific rhetorical strategies—across the pre-writing, during-writing, and post-writing stages—can enhance learner agency, foster critical thinking, and support more empowered academic writing.