2nd Conference on EAP in Ireland

EAP in Ireland is delighted to announce its second annual conference, to be held at University College Cork on Saturday, 5 October, 2019. This year’s conference aims to investigate and discuss EAP within its broad range of academic and institutional contexts. The focus of the event is the changing nature of the interaction/relationship and drivers of collaboration between EAP and disciplinary colleagues; innovations in the teaching, learning, assessment and ethos of EAP; and the creative approaches and solutions EAP practitioners and researchers are championing and adopting in the face of a range of academic and institutional challenges. We invite proposals for workshops, lightning talks, posters, and presentations addressing what drives us, as EAP practitioners and researchers, to forge fruitful collaborations with colleagues, and to apply creative approaches to maximise outcomes for learners and for colleagues. We welcome contributions that consider these themes in context, and that confront the structural challenges that face EAP practitioners as individuals and as a community. 

Some key themes which fit the conference’s remit are listed below, but EAP in Ireland is happy to consider any proposal which is in dialogue with the conference theme: EAP and disciplinary epistemologies/pedagogy Historical approaches to embedding EAP EAP and/vs. ESAP Academic literacies for a range of contexts and purposes English in academic contexts: creative approaches and future developments Embedded EAP Critical EAP Translanguaging in EAP Learning, teaching and assessment for varied / varying contexts Learning, teaching and assessment practices for disciplinary preparation Content-led EAP Language development and/vs. disciplinary orientation EAP and the disciplines: fostering understanding, encouraging collaboration Perceptions of EAP: overcoming academic and institutional silos EAP in the pathway programme; the pathway programme and the institution EAP in atypical contexts Action research in EAP Digital literacies for study preparation Creative approaches to EAP in specific contexts