Enhancing Lecture Delivery for International Students Through EAP and ELT Collaboration
Professional development project at GCU London focused on adapting lectures for international students by collaborating between subject specialist lecturers and EAP practitioners. The project aimed to incorporate an international and intercultural dimension into the curriculum, leading to improved language use, culturally relevant examples, and enhanced student engagement techniques.
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Adapting Lectures for International Students: What Native Speaker Lecturers can Learn from EAP and ELT Ruth Marciniak, GCU London ruth.marciniak@gcu.ac.uk Fiona Aish, Target English fiona@target-english.co.uk BALEAP, Leeds University 2019
Overview Of the Professional Development Project Context Need for the project Aim Project Stages Outcomes Future applications
Professional development project involving collaboration between a subject specialist lecturer and an EAP practitioner GCU London: postgraduate campus predominantly international students from Europe and further afield Context
Within its curriculums, GCU supports the incorporation of an international and intercultural dimension into curriculums
The Lecturer: Teaching experience: Thai visitors to the UK Self reflection Call for support Need for the Project The EAP/ELT Practitioner: EMI agenda what about L1 English lecturers? Neutralising language for international students
The Lecturer: Heighten my awareness of the needs of students who have English as an additional language Aim The EAP/ELT Practitioner: To evaluate the usefulness of EAP/ ELT language knowledge and teaching techniques for lecturers
1. Lecture observation (videoed) & feedback sought from focus groups Project Project Stages Stages 2. Video analysis (language, flow, use of visual materials) & feedback to lecturer 3. Second lecture observation & feedback sought from focus groups
Outcomes The Lecturer: Use of language Use of culturally relevant examples Content of presentations Student engagement technique The EAP/ELT Practitioner: Useful project Easy to implement Clear results
Challenges: Multiple Priorities Obtaining money for research/REF Technological determinism/e-learning Pressure to increase student numbers Serve as distractions to what happens in the classroom Challenges & Future Applications The Future: TEF aims to raise esteem for Teaching For EAP Practitioner: Convince others of project benefits Develop training course/ package Act in advisory capacity for project development and set up
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