EAP Conference 2020

Anybody out there: addressing audiences in academic discourse

EAP Conference 2020 Programme (PDF)

Most EAP practitioners now have opportunities to carry out research while remaining active in the classroom and most of the presentations in the EAP conference 2020 were a result of empirical research. The conference looked at the need for EAP practitioners to be prepared for different audiences: undergraduate and postgraduate, pre-sessional and in-sessional, as well as conference attendance and publication. EAP professionals at the conference also looked at how students need to develop genre awareness and linguistic forms which are discipline-specific.

The title of the conference was: “Anybody out there: addressing audiences in academic discourse”.

The plenary speakers were Ursula Wingate from King’s College London, and Zak Lancaster from Wake Forest University in North Carolina. 

Ursula Wingate’s plenary talk
Developing audience awareness in novice writers (PowerPoint)

Zak Lancaster’s plenary talk
Longitudinal Study of Undergraduate Writers’ Developing Conceptions of Audience (PDF)

Karen Harris
Fluid, elegant, even beautiful: academic writing as an artistic skill. (PDF)

Eoin Jordan
How did students feel about their audience(s) in an online peer-assessed writing task? (PDF)

Tom Le Seelleur
How to develop discussion skills for EAP students (PowerPoint)

Hilary Nesi and Yan Yan Yeung
Chinese e-dictionaries – what audiences are they intended for? (PowerPoint)