Knowledge and the EAP Practitioner by

Ideas and Things

2017-01-27 14:32:54 UTC

In looking at teacher learning through the lens of discursive practices, I found Ian Hacking’s distinction between ‘ideas’ and ‘things’ a useful way to allow for social constructivist (various) perspectives alongside a critical realism (Bhaskar). This helped me to theorise in my own work how epistemology and ontology need not be conflated and for my research to accept that meaning is co-constructed while allowing for human agency in acting on things in the world. Teachers can, therefore, do things with words (Austin) and use language (discursive practices) to shape the world, learning, understanding, positionings (the latter drawing on Davies & Harre). I understand that such a view that brings together these two perspectives is often (and explicitly) challenged as inconsistent, that the two views are seen by some as mutually exclusive. This is why I am sharing it here in advance because I would like to explore others’ responses to this and whether a distinction such as that presented by Hacking helps us investigate how knowledge is generated/ constructed by practitioners whether they be researchers or otherwise. Steve P (CELFS, Bristol)

Agency

2017-01-28 14:41:52 UTC

How can EAP departments establish links with academic departments?

Question from Peter Gee's table

johnxwilliams1 — 2017-01-28 14:43:10 UTC

Does TEAP competence assume/include TESOL competence? (aka Where is the place for 'fun' in EAP?)

Creativity

2017-01-28 14:45:59 UTC

Is it at a content, linguistic, genre, or disciplinary level? How does that transfer into the classroom? At what stage do we encourage creativity? Should students achieve mastery before they can make creative choices?

LEAP as opposed to TEAP

mgillway — 2017-01-28 14:50:45 UTC

How might we theorise the
learning of this knowledge as opposed to the teaching of it?

EAP teachers as theorists

mgillway — 2017-01-28 14:52:38 UTC

Do teachers theorise.

Knowledge transfer

mgillway — 2017-01-28 14:53:12 UTC

How does EAP tutor knowledge get passed on?

Q for Nigel

2017-01-28 14:53:49 UTC

To be an effective EAP practitioner, do we have to engage in scholarship? What is the baseline expectation for this?

Knowledge?!?

2017-01-28 14:54:37 UTC

When EAP is really about constructing and deconstructing academic practices, is it possible to identify what EAP practitioners needs to know in terms of knowledge?

Teacher - Learner dichotomy

mgillway — 2017-01-28 14:54:38 UTC

Are we collaborating as discourse analysts rather than training learners.

Knowledge

2017-01-28 14:54:47 UTC

Is there a gap between what we do and how we represent ourselves in academic research? Who supervises us? What cognate disciplines complement EAP?

What would an article in pedagogical application look like? What scholarly/research methodology would inform this work

2017-01-28 14:55:33 UTC

Stake TheArt of Case Study

mgillway — 2017-01-28 14:56:54 UTC

'The vicarious experience'

Ian mentioned that 'BALEAP have been quite agnostic/neutral'. What role do you see for BALEAPat industry lobbying level? And at an individual level?

2017-01-28 14:58:03 UTC

Empowering EAP

2017-01-28 15:01:31 UTC

Why is there such a disconnect between EAP practice and institutional power structures? What can the EAP community to do empower itself in our institutional power structures more? and indeed national contexts (i.e. UK border practices)?

Knowledge

2017-01-28 15:03:48 UTC

What knowledge do we need to do EAP and do we need different knowledges at different stages?

Worth a read...

johnxwilliams1 — 2017-01-28 15:03:57 UTC

Another approach to literacies, not from EAP

LEAP rather than TEAP?

terridedwards — 2017-01-28 15:05:07 UTC

Don't EAP tutors need to know how learners learn as well as how teachers teach?

Disseminating knowledge

2017-01-28 15:05:58 UTC

How widely should it be disseminated? What about informal dissemination within an institution or a centre? And how can we raise our research & to scholarship profile within the HE sector?

Inclusive EAP

2017-01-28 15:07:16 UTC

While agreeing with the WP ethos, is it possible implement critical EAP with students at lower levels of language? Any examples of success stories?

For Nigel

2017-01-28 15:07:35 UTC

From your experience as an Editor, what recommendations would you give us to publish our teaching practices; do you have references on how to talk about our practice in a more 'academic' way, a way that would be acceptable for publication?

Socio-economic Mischief

2017-01-28 15:10:14 UTC

If on the 1st of July, every EAP teacher on a short-term/0 hours contract were absudcted by aliens, what would happen?

2019-04-25 13:40:58 UTC

Harwood Paper

Bruce Paper

2019-04-25 13:41:20 UTC

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