How do EAP professors relax over Spring Break? By running themselves ragged at academic conferences, of course!
Dr. Megan Siczek, the Director of EAP, went to Scotland to present at the St. Andrews EAP Conference 2019. Her presentation was entitled, “Promoting Engagement with Sources in Genre-based Oral Academic Communication.”
Dr. Natalia Dolgova attended both the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference and the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) International Convention & English Language Expo. In an AAAL colloquium titled “Cognitive linguistics and Sociocultural Theory approaches to L2 pedagogy: Targeting conceptualization and construal,” Dr. Dolgova gave a presentation titled “Using cognitive linguistic tools to teach English cohesive devices of contrast.” As if that wasn’t enough, she then headed to Atlanta to give a presentation called, “The role of construal in English conditional constructions and its applications to L2 context" during the panel, “Verbing Out with Cognitive Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory” at the TESOL conference.
Our newest faculty member, Dr. Joshua Paiz, also kept busy! His presentation, “Practical Considerations in Queering ELT,” was given at the previously-mentioned AAAL conference, after which he gave a talk called “The L2 Writing Classroom as Performative Space: Possibilities and Challenges for LGBTQ+ Multilingual Learners” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2019 in Pittsburgh.
Keep up the great academic work, everyone!