Our Scholarship Interests

We are fully committed to supporting the scholarly activity of all staff. Our broad area of inquiry is English for Academic Purposes, with particular interests in:

Academic discourse

  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Disciplinary differences
  • Discourse analysis
  • Semantic fields & schema theory
  • Spoken academic discourse
  • Syntax/academic sentence grammar

EAP pedagogy

  • Academic literacies and EAP
  • Academic writing instruction/developing academic identity in writing
  • Collaborative & task-based learning
  • English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP)
  • EAP syllabus design
  • Graduate attributes & EAP
  • Multimodal approaches

The EAP learner

  • Learner autonomy
  • Learner identity & beliefs
  • Learner motivation & motivational strategies for language learners

Technology-enhanced language teaching (TELT)

  • Online course design
  • Online facilitation
  • Blended learning
  • Digital literacies

Assessment & Feedback

  • Development of constructs and representation in tests
  • Ethics in language testing
  • Language assessment literacy

Teacher training

  • EAP teacher competencies
  • Initial teacher training
  • Reflection & reflective practice
  • Teacher identity & beliefs

Where we disseminate our work

Collaboration

EAS welcomes opportunities to collaborate with University of Glasgow academic staff as well as with EAP professionals at other institutions. To discuss your ideas, please contact:

Carole MacDiarmid
EAP Manager (Teacher Development)
English for Academic Study
School of Modern Languages and Cultures/ Sgoil nan Nua-Chànan is nan Cultar
Room 138, Hetherington Building, Bute Gardens,
Glasgow G12 8RS
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 7161
Email: Carole.MacDiarmid@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/carolemacdiarmid/

or

Anneli Williams
EAP Manager for Pre-sessional and In-sessional
English for Academic Study
School of Modern Languages and Cultures/ Sgoil nan Nua-Chànan is nan Cultar
Room 138, Hetherington Building,
Bute Gardens,
Glasgow G12 8RS
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 6242
Email: anneli.williams@glasgow.ac.uk
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/anneliwilliams/

 

Professional affiliations

The University of Glasgow English for Academic Studies unit (formerly EFL Unit) has been involved with BALEAP since its original incarnation as SELMOUS.

Since then, members of the EAS team members have contributed to the work of BALEAP including serving on the TEAP Competency Framework working party (Carole Macdiarmid) and the Can Do working party, which developed Competency statements for international students at Master’s level (Moira Calderwood and Anneli Williams). Carole MacDiarmid is a BAS Assessor and Anneli Williams is an Ordinary Member on the BALEAP Executive Committee.

UoG EAS have hosted two BALEAP Professional Issues Meetings: Learner Identity: Managing Transitions in Nov 2016 and Academic Listening in Nov 2009. We will be hosting the Bi Annual BALEAP conference in April 2021.