BALEAP 2019 LEEDS EAP and the Creative Arts

BALEAP 2019 LEEDS EAP and the Creative Arts: an Exploration Anna Rolinska, Jennifer Sizer, Clare Maxwell, Clare Carr, Katherine High, Hannah Jones, Alison Thomas

Today’s running order • Introductions • Motivations • The workshop itself • Future directions

About Us • Hannah Jones; Alison Thomas ( University of Edinburgh), • Clare Carr ( Durham) • Kathrine High (Bristol)) • Clare Maxwell ( University of Leeds) • Anna Rolinska ( Glasgow Uni/ GSA) • Jennifer Sizer (University of Portsmouth),

Motivations… • We as a group came together as the result of an EAP in the North session at Uo. E last year. • A gap in the literature? • There is a solid body of disciplinary theory and knowledge in other areas: STEM; Business; Law; Health but CA? • An increasing number of international students choosing to study creative arts?

• Context- worth remembering that EAP can be a precarious industry/ profession. The atomisation caused by short-term contracts, etc can mean that knowledge and effective practice becomes atomised. • We think it’s important that ‘atomised’ is prevented from becoming ‘balkanised’ (i. e. small, hostile parts of a whole). • This workshop then is an attempt to bring together our practice wherever and however it occurs. • ‘Tales from the Field’: very much an exploration ( fitting in with themes of the Conference)rather than showcasing our work.

So, what do we mean by ‘creative arts’? We are a self-selected group: Arch/ music/ art/ design/ TV & film. However, Where do the disciplinary boundaries lie? Who determines the boundaries? Do we need boundaries at all?

Workshop Format What happens now? • We’ve adopted a ‘World Café’ format • We have 5 different tables with 5 table leads from 5 different – non-arts- unis and 5 different creative arts [Art, Design, Music, Architecture, Film and TV] • • Round- table discussions based around discipline: 2 x 25 mins [Appoint a scribe!]. + Final plenary discussion (team and audience): [ use your tablecloths!]

The Padlet • https: //padlet. com/annarolinska/eap_in_creative_disciplines • Your contributions? • Your tablecloth comments? • Your resource suggestions?

Guiding Questions • Is EAP in the Creative Arts all that different to EAP in other disciplinary areas? • Does it need its own disciplinary space?

Table Hosts Introductions

PLENARY

ROUND- UP • Is EAP in the Creative Arts all that different to EAP in other disciplinary areas? • Does it need its own disciplinary space? • What ‘innovative’ practice is going on in this field? • And looking forward……. ? ?

What happens next…. ? • www. jiscmail. ac. uk/EAPAD set up by Emma Lay at Arts Uni Bournemouth for those working in Art and design orgs. • Alke Groppel-Wegener's blog is here: • https: //tactileacademia. com/2017/06/25/from-namtags-to-feedbackbunting/) • • Gary-Riley Jones https: //www. gold. ac. uk/english-language-centre/staff/riley-jones/ • Writing-PAD http: //writing-pad. org/Home. Page (& Journal of Writing in Creative Practice)

• ‘New Perspectives for English for Academic Purposes’ published by Bloomsbury. Series editors are: Alex Ding, Ian Bruce and Melinda Whong. ‘We are excited to be editing this series as we hope it will explore innovative research and scholarship in EAP and provide powerful scholarship for and by practitioners’. • And finally, • Following on form Nigel Harwood’s key note yesterday, advocating intrainstitutional research collaborations with the disciplines, we/ I highly recommend inter-institutional working.

Correspondence Alison. Thomas@ed. ac. uk ( ideas on next steps, scholarship) Hannah. i. Jones@ed. ac. uk c. maxwell@leeds. ac. uk ( design) a. rolinska@gsa. ac. uk ( art) jennifer. sizer@port. ac. uk ( arch) Katherine. high@bristol. ac. uk ( TV&film) c. c. barker@durham. ac. uk (Clare Carr, music)