Materials for Thought Keynote Speakers
Monday 04 February 2013
ELT is pleased to confirm the following speakers at our fourth EAP workshop to be held on 02 March:
Keynote speakers
- Louis Rogers, University of Reading, 'Authentic materials in reading and listening: challenges for students and EAP practitioners'
- Diane Schmitt, Nottingham Trent University, title to be confirmed.
Additional speakers
- Olwyn Alexander, Heriot-Watt University, and Sue Argent, Garnet Education, 'Stepping up to the plate: framing EAP materials through graduate attributes'.
- Janie Brooks and Ishbel Duncan, University of St Andrews, 'Using the immersive Internet to support international student transition to life in a UK'.
- Deborah Cobbett, University of Sheffield, 'From Architecture to Zoology: departmental language support at Sheffield University.'
- Dawn Cremonese, University of St Andrews, 'Socio-pragmatic and linguistic awareness raising in ESAP through video-dubbing'.
- Dustin Hosseini, University of Glasgow, ‘Facts, insight and humour’: Using TED Talks for authentic listening'.
- Thom Jones, Trinity College London, 'Nobody wants to be here! Reading in the EAP classroom'.
- Ally Malcolm-Smith, University of St Andrews, 'From TED to StAN: Working with local authentic academic listening texts'.
- Sam McCarter, Oxford University Press, 'Developing EAP reading materials for teaching and publication'.
- Dr Karen Ottewell, University of Cambridge, 'EAP Best Practice Guidelines for the Wider University'.
- Jennifer Spencer, Freelance consultant, 'Going local: customising and developing materials for specific courses and course groups'.
Registration for the event is still open. Forms and further information can be found on the workshop webpage.