The third edition of the Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education conference, #LSPHE2017, was held at the University of Oxford Language Centre on Friday 8th September 2017.
The programme for the day is available here.
Slides and documents from the conference:
- ‘Bristling Brushstrokes’: Using Do-It-Yourself Corpora to teach LSP (Plenary keynote address by Dr Maggie Charles)
- Discussion boards: a constructivist approach and a means of consolidating writing skills for advanced learners of business Russian (Olga Helly)
- Discussion boards as a teaching and assessment tool in content based language teaching (Dr Neil Hughes)
- Revisiting the foundations of communicative LSP. All quiet on the teaching front? (Dr Felicitas Starr-Egger)
- Teaching Scientists the Idiom of Their Science—What Do We as Language Experts Need to Know About Engineering, Medicine or Chemistry? (Dr Martin G. Kantus)
- Designing and scoring tasks for LSP assessment (Workshop by Prof. Christian Krekeler)
- Reflections on LSP for engineers (Alexander Bleistein and David Tual)
- ‘Cultural Awareness for Specific Purposes’ A reaction to international objectives (Thomas Smith)
- Assessing undergraduates through presentations in ESP (Nalan Kenny & Dr Nadezda Stojkovic)
- The communicative approach in an academic Chinese course (Dr Hongfen Zhou)
- Tailoring language courses: flexible syllabus, task chaining, life skills and cognitive processes (Dr Alena Hradilová, Dr Kateřina Sedláčková, Jitka Žváčková and Radim Herout)
The organising committee:
Tania Batelli-Kneale (Oxford University)
Alexander Bleistein (DAAD / University of Cambridge)
Esmeralda Frances-Martinez (Oxford University)
Benoît Guilbaud (The University of Sussex)
David Tual (University of Cambridge)
Photo credit: cc Martijn van Sabben
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