To help students develop their listening and speaking skills, I trialled a new software programme, Sonocent Audio Notetaker, in 2015-2016 with a group of ten Chinese students on the International Foundation Programme (IFP). (more…)
Month: August 2016
Applying Corpus Tools to EAP Instruction
by Mat Terrett
My interest in the use of corpora for EAP began when I first heard about Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List and was further piqued when I read Hyland’s (2009) corpus-based argument for greater specificity in EAP teaching. (more…)
End of course marking…
by Hannah Gurr
It was the first week of June, and I’d just finished what I considered to be the least enjoyable part of my job: marking a pile of end-of-course writing under exam conditions. (more…)