We also invite any interested practitioners who want to extend their knowledge in this area to take part. 

The symposium will take place on Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 18^th June 4pm (BST). 

Ahead of the symposium; 

We invite you to watch the following recordings:

1. ‘Legitimation Code Theory [LCT] in EAP Scholarship’ BALEAP ResTes event. 15^th June 2022 https://research.baleap.org/legitimation-code-theory-lct-in-eap-scholarship/ 
2. A summary of Maton (2013) ‘Making semantic waves: A key to cumulative knowledge-building’ Linguistics and Education. 24 (1) pp. 8 – 22. (we’ll share in May).

We invite you to read: 

1. Monbec, L. (2018). Designing an EAP curriculum for transfer: A focus on knowledge. Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 12(2), A88-A101.  (This is an accessible text for our context) 
2. Maton (2013) ‘Making semantic waves: A key to cumulative knowledge-building’ Linguistics and Education. 24 (1) pp. 8 – 22. (This is a more detailed and thorough account of semantic waves) 
3. Cranwell, P.B. and Whiteside, K.L., 2020. Investigation into the semantic density and semantic gravity wave profile of teachers when discussing electrophilic aromatic substitution (SEAr). Journal of chemical education, 97 (10), pp.3540-3550. (Might be worth skimming to see how the concepts of semantic gravity and semantic density were applied to an organic chemistry teaching context). 

We invite you to post questions/areas for discussion inspired by the reading or your practice. 

Please send us any questions, areas to discuss and share any resources, which are relevant to EAP teaching within STEM subjects on the following Padlet

We don’t expect you to complete all this preparation material but to engage at the level of interest, knowledge and time you have.

During the symposium;

Following 2-3 presentations of practice, we will explore questions and discussion topics from the Padlet together as well as follow up questions to the presentations. 

After the symposium;

We’ll add more discussion and resources as well as the symposium recording to the Padlet and share via our website for future use: https://baleapstemsig.com/ Looking forward to your participation and working through LCT together.