1st BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG event 2021
Core Corpus Skills for Academic Purposes
There is little or no mention of corpora in much of the guidance for EAP teacher and learner training. For example, neither BALEAP’s TEAP Accreditation Scheme Handbook (2014) or Competency Framework for Teachers of EAP (2008) make explicit reference to corpora or corpus linguistic approaches, and BALEAP’s Can Do Framework for EAP Syllabus Design and Assessment (2013) treats corpora as text repositories only. Such omissions are surprising because corpus-based work can greatly inform our understanding of discourse, particularly in terms of disciplinary difference.
The aim of this one-day event is to discuss the role corpora play in EAP teaching (morning session), and to plug the current gap in documentation relating to core corpus skills for academic purposes (afternoon session) - see below for downloadable schedule. By the end of the day, we aim to co-create with participants a series of Core Corpus Skills Can Do statements to propose to BALEAP, to supplement their existing documentation.
Schedule (click on titles for abstracts)
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10.00 Welcome
10:10 Core Corpus Skills for Academic Purposes - slides | video
Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe (University of Huddersfield)
10:40 Core Corpus Skills for Discipline-specific Vocabulary Teaching - slides | video
Simon Smith (Coventry University)
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11:10 Break
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11:30 The TEAP Competency Framework - slides | video (includes recording of Jenny Kemp's talk)
Carole MacDiarmid (University of Glasgow)
11:40 Interpreting the TEAP Competency Framework (2008) through corpus spectacles - slides
Jenny Kemp (University of Leicester)
12:00 Core Corpus Skills for designing In-Sessional ESAP materials - slides | video
Karin Whiteside (University of Reading)
12:30 Corpus Construction Skills for Literacy Development - slides | video
Cathy Malone (Oxford Brookes University)
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13:00-14:00 Lunch
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14:00 Groupwork: discussions to propose core corpus skills - slides here
Discussion chairs:
Group 1: Programme development (Gareth Jones)
Groups 2: Academic practices (Sheena Gardner)
Group 3: The Student (Karin Whiteside)
Group 4: Course Delivery (John Slaght)
Starting points document - this will also be useful
14:45 Plenary to combine ideas from different groups and decide on final list of proposals to
forward to BALEAP
15:30 Wrapping up
Core Corpus Skills for Academic Purposes
- Date: 14 January 2021
- Time: 10:00-15:30
- Venue: Online (registered participants will receive Zoom link to join)
There is little or no mention of corpora in much of the guidance for EAP teacher and learner training. For example, neither BALEAP’s TEAP Accreditation Scheme Handbook (2014) or Competency Framework for Teachers of EAP (2008) make explicit reference to corpora or corpus linguistic approaches, and BALEAP’s Can Do Framework for EAP Syllabus Design and Assessment (2013) treats corpora as text repositories only. Such omissions are surprising because corpus-based work can greatly inform our understanding of discourse, particularly in terms of disciplinary difference.
The aim of this one-day event is to discuss the role corpora play in EAP teaching (morning session), and to plug the current gap in documentation relating to core corpus skills for academic purposes (afternoon session) - see below for downloadable schedule. By the end of the day, we aim to co-create with participants a series of Core Corpus Skills Can Do statements to propose to BALEAP, to supplement their existing documentation.
- To register for this event please go to this link and fill in the form.
Schedule (click on titles for abstracts)
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10.00 Welcome
10:10 Core Corpus Skills for Academic Purposes - slides | video
Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe (University of Huddersfield)
10:40 Core Corpus Skills for Discipline-specific Vocabulary Teaching - slides | video
Simon Smith (Coventry University)
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11:10 Break
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11:30 The TEAP Competency Framework - slides | video (includes recording of Jenny Kemp's talk)
Carole MacDiarmid (University of Glasgow)
11:40 Interpreting the TEAP Competency Framework (2008) through corpus spectacles - slides
Jenny Kemp (University of Leicester)
12:00 Core Corpus Skills for designing In-Sessional ESAP materials - slides | video
Karin Whiteside (University of Reading)
12:30 Corpus Construction Skills for Literacy Development - slides | video
Cathy Malone (Oxford Brookes University)
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13:00-14:00 Lunch
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14:00 Groupwork: discussions to propose core corpus skills - slides here
Discussion chairs:
Group 1: Programme development (Gareth Jones)
Groups 2: Academic practices (Sheena Gardner)
Group 3: The Student (Karin Whiteside)
Group 4: Course Delivery (John Slaght)
Starting points document - this will also be useful
14:45 Plenary to combine ideas from different groups and decide on final list of proposals to
forward to BALEAP
15:30 Wrapping up
