Conferences

Notice of Annual General Meeting & Professional Development Day

Saturday 22 May 2010, 11am – 4pm

VENUE : London South Bank University
Keyworth Building, Keyworth Street, London SE1 0AA
2 minutes’ walk from Elephant and Castle tube station (Bakerloo and Northern lines)

MAP : www.lsbu.ac.uk/about/maps.shtml

AIMS :

to consider how recruitment & induction and observation & monitoring of teachers on EAP courses can be informed by the EAP teacher Competency Framework as required by the BALEAP Accreditation Scheme.
to show how the links between the academic context, the EAP course syllabus and the EAP classroom can be made explicit.

TIMETABLE :

11am-1pm Professional development
1pm-2pm Lunch
2pm-3pm AGM
3pm-4pm Professional development

FEES : This event is FREE for BALEAP members who register by Friday 30 April.
Non-members are welcome but a fee of £60.00 will be charged and non-members may not attend the AGM. Note that BALEAP associate membership costs £60.00 for a year.

REGISTRATION : Register online or download a registration form in Acrobat PDF format (61Kb) or Word format (143Kb).

NEXT BALEAP CONFERENCE

10 - 12 April 2011 - University of Portsmouth

"EAP within the HE Garden : Cross Pollination between Disciplines, Departments, Research and Teaching"

Cross pollination welcome from :

Materials Design
eLearning and Technology
Teacher Training & Competencies
Second Language Acquisition
Academic Literacies
Discourse Analysis
Cross-Cultural Studies
Tests and Testing
The Internationalization of HE
English for Specific Academic Purposes
Writing for Home Students

The call for papers will be available in June 2010.

For infomal enquiries contact :
Richard.Hitchcock@port.ac.uk or John.Wrigglesworth@port.ac.uk

Download the Conference flyer [PDF 60KB]

MOST RECENT BALEAP CONFERENCE

April 2009 - University of Reading

"English for Specific Academic Purposes"

Attended by 250 participants.

Proceedings should be published in time for the 2011 Conference.

Professional Issues Meetings (PIMS)

These one-day mini-conferences are held two or three times per year.

The next one is at Nottingham University on 13 November 2010.

See Professional Issues Meetings for details.

Andy Seymour
BALEAP PIMs Coordinator

Assistant Director, International Study & Language Centre
University Language Centre
University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading RG6 6WB

Tel : 0118 378 6760
Email : PIM@baleap.org.uk