Legitimation code theory (LCT) is becoming a known and key framework within EAP literature and scholarship with an extension to syllabus design and practitioner classroom practice and development (Kirk, 2022). While we are able to find published work and applications of LCT within EAP, we believe the BALEAP STEM SIG should be bringing practitioners together to share syllabus development and classroom practice to exemplify and demystify the literature. We also believe that the SIG should create a safe space for practitioners in differing points in their practitioner development to explore current frameworks and seek advice on syllabus development and classroom practice.
Recordings and slides from the event
Event Recording
Talk Number One
Title: Using the concepts of semantic gravity and density within a course for PhD candidates
Presenter: Robert Coates who currently is working at Brescia University and Edinburgh. At Brescia and Milan Universities he has been involved in EAP courses specifically designed to aid PhD candidates (as well as courses for researchers and professors) in entering the publishing Community. He is also a language editor for a sociological Journal: JASSS.
Talk Number Two
Title: Semantic waves within three minute thesis presentations for Chemistry PhD students
Presenter: Natasha Rust, a senior lecturer in EAP at the University of Leeds and currently an in-sessional tutor in the Schools of Chemistry and of Physics and Astronomy.
Talk Number Three
Title: LCT inspirations and plans for Mechanical Engineering
Presenter: Anna Murawska, a lecturer in EAP at Leeds University, where she leads in-sessional provision in the School of Mechanical Engineering. Her academic interests include developing discipline specific literacy practices in STEM. She is currently conducting a research project on critical writing in Engineering.