Rob Playfair
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Rob Playfair
@RobPlayfair
English for Academic Purposes Practitioner @imperialenglish. PhD researcher @BirkbeckLCAL. Ethnographizing the heteroglossia of EAP. #tleap
London, England Sumali Eylül 2010
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Looks very useful for #tleap
Interesting points of comparison with @Michell04246373 and @alexanderding recent social theory book which has related aims.
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Check out our chapter in Studies in Language Testing. Lots of useful work in this series for #tleap and assessment folk
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Volume 56 of the Studies in Language Testing series includes a chapter from me and @EdTedC about teachers working in #tleap assessment roles. Lots of other interesting case studies in the volume, too. Open access: cambridgeenglish.org/english-resear… @taf_sig @TEd_EAP
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📕SIG members @EdTedC & @RobPlayfair research lang assessment literacy, & how the TAFSIG Piloting Network can support #eap practitioners. cambridgeenglish.org/english-resear… Then find out more about the (free!) network here: baleaptafsig.weebly.com/piloting-netwo… #tleap
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Volume 56 of the Studies in Language Testing series includes a chapter from me and @EdTedC about teachers working in #tleap assessment roles.
Lots of other interesting case studies in the volume, too.
Open access: cambridgeenglish.org/english-resear…
@taf_sig @TEd_EAP
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1/4 @LaetitiaM19 and I have just submitted our manuscript to Palgrave and our book ' Recovering Language in Higher Education: Social Justice, Ethics and Practices' should be published in the next few months.
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@universe_circus The mailing list is so huge & I don't think it's necessarily used /perceived as an egalitarian discussion forum (see Alex, @BeeBond1 & @IanBruc19234684 paper in JEAP).
Padlet has worked well for specialist events (feminismxeap & some SIG events)
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@RobPlayfair Glad to hear I'm not the only one! Would be wonderful to hear more from the BALEAP mailing list, though I don't quite see how your unique style of snapshot quote-sharing could transfer to that platform
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Despite only tweeting and liking the niche topic of #tleap my timeline on this app shows me anything but...
Where can online discussions happen now? Linkedin? BALEAP mailing list? Mastodon?
Missed this at the time but reposting as it's a good question with good thread so far.
Alex Ding@alexanderding
@AL_BALEAP and other #tleap colleagues - what would you say are the major contributions of Ac Lits to EAP? and conversely, what are the contributions of EAP to Ac Lits (if any)?
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Needs analysis is associated with practical pedgogical outcomes: designing / evaluating a course.
Could it also be used for social critique?
Even Benesch's work was about working within existing educational systems, rather than as a study of the education system itself. #tleap
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@RobPlayfair "larger cohorts might lead to more inspirational / departmental suspicion of students"
That's a very interesting point, especially about the "departmental suspicion".
But what did you mean by "inspirational"? (Was "institutional" meant?)
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Many pre-sessional courses in the UK now have far fewer students than in pre-covid boom years.
How have the courses changed as a result of being smaller? less factory-like? more scope for experimentation / alt approaches? Smaller classes? Different institutional remit?
#tleap
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@AL_BALEAP I was thinking of on campus as that's what I've been doing. A small class this year has been great and for me put the spotlight on trust, and how larger cohorts might lead to more inspirational/departmental suspicion of students.
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@RobPlayfair Are you referring to on campus courses only or both on campus and online?
Personally, I'm not involved in the pre-sessional in my institution (I do in-sessional only), but I gather from my colleagues that the numbers are about the same, but roughly half are online.
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@NeilsonGAllison I've had a class of 8 this summer. It has made some practices designed for huge classes and cohorts seem redundant, especially around processes to prevent / prepare for students' intentionally plagiarising / cheating.
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LLMs exhibit covert racism through dialect prejudice, showing even more negative biases against AAE speakers than humans: nature.com/articles/s4158…
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An interview with Claudia Strauss about her book What Work Means.
Of interest to those of us in #tleap 'non-standard' employment, perhaps.
campanthropology.org
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Many in #tleap are studying part time. Maybe this is of interest.
Also this site they mention with personal accounts of part time doctoral researchers thrivingparttime.com
@jodynic @universe_circus @NiamhMullen4 @danielanthonyos @jo_kukuczka @pace_ou
LSE Impact Blog@LSEImpactBlog
Making your part-time doctorate work for you #PhDchat wp.me/p4m9em-ckw
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@LaetitiaM19 Thanks, the paragraph I quoted was a summary of an argument he'd made in more detail in the previous book which perhaps explains the malevolence!
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Van Dijk (2009) argues that social context has no direct influence on discourse.
Otherwise we would all do the same thing when on the same situation.
#tleap
#ethnography
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He defines context as a subjective mental model based on what each person perceives as relevant in the social environment, mediated by their individual background.
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@AL_BALEAP Hi Nick, don't know that book, but yes have used Blommaert's work on context.
Found this particularly useful: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…
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@RobPlayfair I'm afraid I haven't read it, but was prompted by your post to look it up.
OTOH, I have read Blommaert, esp. 👇but assume you will have too.
Although its concerns are remote from EAP, the approach taken is arguably highly relevant albeit much further along the cline >>
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For anyone intrigued, the source is:
van Dijk, T. A. 2009. Society and Discourse: How Social Contexts Influence Text and Talk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
And a slightly expanded version of Rob Playfair's summary is below (taken from the book's preface).
Rob Playfair@RobPlayfair
Van Dijk (2009) argues that social context has no direct influence on discourse. Otherwise we would all do the same thing when on the same situation. #tleap #ethnography
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