Speakers

Brooke Boulton

Brooke Boulton teaches writing at Winona State University in Minnesota, USA. She has a doctorate in education and a Master of Fine Arts in poetry. In her research, Brooke explores identity development and language negotiation among writers for whom English is not the first language. Her research interests also consider intercultural rhetoric, psycholinguistics, and doctoral program development. Currently, Brooke is conducting a longitudinal study to investigate student perceptions of writer identity and doctoral program writing needs in education.

Maureen Finn

I am a Senior Language Tutor at the University Language Centre, The University of Manchester. My discipline-specific work is with undergraduate Pharmacy students, to develop academic literacy skills throughout their degree course, and with Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health PhD students, on preparation for continuation report writing at the end of their first year. I teach general EAP across faculties to post-graduate taught master’s students as part of our insessional teaching programme. My recently completed doctoral research focuses on the expression of criticality in writing for Medical and Health Sciences. My current interests are in the way we can develop our knowledge base as EAP teachers, to inform both our work in our classrooms and the materials we develop and write. I am interested in how we analyse and critique research and what steps we can take to incorporate new thinking and approaches into established teaching programmes.

Professor Sheena Gardner

Sheena Gardner is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Coventry University. She has taught EAP in Scotland and Sudan, English in Germany and Ukraine, worked in North American university writing programmes and British MA in ELT/TEAL/TEAP/TESP programmes at Warwick, Birmingham and Coventry. Her research centres on exploring the nature of academic genres and registers in the British Academic Written English (www.coventry.ac.uk/BAWE) corpus. Her books include Genres across the Disciplines with H. Nesi (Cambridge, 2012). Multilingualism, Discourse and Ethnography edited with M. Martin-Jones (Routledge, 2012) and Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age edited with Siân Alsop (Equinox, 2016). Recent PhD supervision focuses on EAP transfer and written feedback. She was consultant on academic English projects in Hong Kong (LID, OSAWEC) and co-editor with Jim Donohue of the JEAP special issue to celebrate Halliday’s influence on EAP practice.

Dr Stephen Gow

Stephen Gow is responsible for the coordination of standards, assessment and academic integrity at the University of York, he has been working in this evolving role since 2014. Stephen spent 5 years in China prior to working at the University, he studied Chinese at Fudan University before teaching EAP at the Sydney Institute of Language and Commerce, Shanghai University and Tsinghua University. While working in China and then at the British Council, Cairo, Stephen completed his MRes at the Institute of Education before completing a PhD at the University of York. His research concerns understanding the educational, social, cultural, political and economic causes of the stereotype of Chinese students as susceptible to plagiarism. He is Chair of the Northern Academic Integrity Special Interest Group exploring sector wide approaches to contract cheating and is now focusing his research on the implications of artificial intelligence for academic integrity.

Mike Groves

Surrey International Institute, Dongebei University of Finance and Economics, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Mike Groves has been involved in the teaching of English language for over 25 years, and the teaching of University English since 2007. He is the director of the Centre for Academic English Studies, Surrey International Institute, The University of Surrey. He is interested in how technology works for and against the interests of students, instructors and institutions.

Xuanhong Guo

Dr. Xuanhong Guo (Ph.D., University of Durham) is an independent researcher and a freelance English teacher. She also works as an MA TESOL dissertation supervisor at Durham University. Her research focuses on EAP writing, cohesion and Systemic Functional Linguistics. Her PhD thesis is related to lexical cohesive devices used in the Chinese postgraduates’ writing in the UK academic settings. Currently, Dr. Guo’s research examines the phenomenon of proofreading services in the context of UK higher education institutions from the perspectives of students, supervisors, EAP teachers and proofreaders.

Professor Nigel Harwood

Nigel Harwood is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has published articles on EAP and academic writing in various journals, including Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Writing, Written Communication, Journal of Pragmatics, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes. He has authored or co-authored five journal articles on the proofreading of student writing to date, and his current research focuses on the perceptions of content lecturers, EAP tutors, and students on the ethical acceptability of various proofreading interventions.

Jane Heath

Jane Heath first taught EAP at the University of Leeds Language Centre in summer 2011, having recently completed an MA in Applied Translation Studies. After teaching English as a Foreign Language in Spain, she returned to the UK to teach EAP at Leeds Beckett University for three years, gaining the Delta qualification during this time. Jane returned to the University of Leeds Language Centre in July 2018 and now co-leads two pre-sessional courses. In 2020, she spoke about managing the multiple spaces of online teaching at the BALEAP TELSIG conference and, in 2021, her narrative of supporting a large teaching team during the initial move to remote teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic was published in a BALEAP special edition. She has a particular interest in students’ perceptions and experiences of tutorials on pre-sessional EAP courses, and is currently engaged in a scholarship project in this area.

Dr Stephen Issitt

Steve Issitt works at the University of Birmingham where he is a presessional EAP coordinator, situated in the BIA (Birmingham International Academy). He holds a PhD in applied linguistics and is especially interested in academic literacy and writing development. Steve has worked in many sectors of education and with a variety of age groups. He has made a series of contributions to BALEAP events and has published papers in the field of language assessment and examination performance. He lives in Birmingham and London.

Dr Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe

Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe is a Senior Lecturer in EAP at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She teaches academic writing to international doctorate students and she extensively uses corpora and concordancers in her teaching. She has recently published a resource book, Academic Writing with Corpora (Routledge, 2020). Her other interests lie in the area of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. She published papers in such journals as Journal of EAP, CADAAD journal, Corpora (forthcoming), English Text Construction, Women’s Studies International Forum and chapters in the books Language of Conflict (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture (forthcoming).

Dr. Irena Kuzborska

Irena Kuzborska is a senior lecturer and programme leader for the PhD TESOL at the Department of Education, University of York, UK. Her research and teaching interests include second language academic literacy, language teacher education and English for specific purposes. She has published papers on language teacher cognition and the learning and teaching of second language reading and writing.

Heather McClean

Heather McClean is Head of EAP Programmes at University for the Creative Arts based in Farnham, Surrey. She has over 20 years’ experience in language teaching, teacher training and academic management. She has trained tutors from around the world, as well as providing in-house training for EAP and other academic staff in the UK. She has been teaching creative arts students since 2015. Heather is a keen linguist and has particular expertise in language and identity, language assessment, syllabus and curriculum design, and English for Creative Arts.

Klaus Mundt

Centre for English Language Education, University of Nottingham

Klaus Mundt teaches English for Academic Purposes and Translation. His research interests are translation pedagogy, cultural translation, machine translation, language acquisition and genre, register, discourse and corpus analysis. He is the deputy head of the Centre for English Language Education at the University of Nottingham.

Anna Murawska

Anna Murawska is a Lecturer of English for Academic Purposes at The University of Leeds. She is currently working as an in-sessional tutor to support postgraduate students and academic staff in the School of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include academic reading, assessment of integrated skills and developing disciplinary literacies.

Walter Nolan

Walter Nowlan is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of the Pre-sessional English for Academic Purposes programme at Nottingham Trent University. He is also an active member of the Academic Integrity Working Group within the Trent Institute for Learning and Teaching, which aims to develop best practices in academic integrity teaching and learning across the university. Walter is currently working with other members of the working group to devise a set of materials that aim to provide guidance to students and staff to address contract cheating. His research interests also include the use of translation software and other technologies in EAP learning and assessment.

Martin Seviour

Martin Seviour is a Principal Lecturer and oversees EAP programmes at NTU. He has a long-standing interest in Academic Integrity and frequently sits on AI panels. Martin is currently working with Walter Nowlan on a set of materials which aim to offer teachers across the university a pedagogic response to contract cheating. He has an essay mill at the end of his road in Arnold, Nottingham.

Dr. Bill Soden

Bill Soden is a lecturer and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; he has led the MA TESOL programme at the Department of Education, University of York, UK. His research interests include second language writing, EAP, and teaching and learning in higher education. He has published on the topics of feedback, use of screen capture technology and source use in academic writing.

Dr. Qingyang Sun

Qingyang Sun is a lecturer in EAP at the School of Languages, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. Her research interests include second language academic writing, source use and feedback practices in EAP. She has recently published in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.

Jane Templeton

Jane Templeton is the in-sessional EAP tutor for taught postgraduate students in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Leeds. In this role she is working with students and academic and support staff to develop discipline-specific support with academic literacy development. She also works with the STEM pre-sessional team on the ongoing development of the content-based summer pre-sessional programme.

Qiongyue Xu

I am a master’s student on the MA TESOL programme at Durham University. My dissertation is related to interpreting feedback and feedback provision implications in the UK academic settings. I have been increasingly interested in EAP, hoping to explore students’ second language motivation and develop creative methods for second language academic writing. My research interests also lie in the areas of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, with a particular focus on systemic functional linguistics, identities studies, new communication technologies and the mass media.