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Workshop title: Investigating the Challenges of Teaching EAP Remotely
Presenter: Martin Sketchley
Date/time: Oct 10, 18:00 KST (PLEASE NOTE! the time given here is Korean time)
Abstract:
The global pandemic left many EAP (English for Academic Purposes) practitioners having to react to the organising and delivery of lessons remotely, especially for summer pre-sessional courses in the UK. Due to these circumstances, it was decided that action research should be undertaken to gain a greater understanding of the unique challenges facing tutors having to deliver courses remotely. Participation was completely voluntary and those that decided to contribute to this action research were asked to complete a survey over their eight-week pre-sessional course, documenting their reflections and opinions of teaching remotely. Four open ended questions were included within the survey that attempted to elicit sentiments such as:
- What three challenges did you encounter during the eight-week pre-sessional course?
- What strategies did you implement to tackle these three challenges?
- What skills are required to be an online EAP tutor post-COVID19?
- What advice would you have given yourself at the beginning of the course?
Tutor insight into the remote teaching of EAP will further deepen our knowledge of language teaching within universities and provide the necessary awareness, and knowledge should remote teaching gain further prominence.
Martin Sketchley is an English Tutor at Sussex University.
