Conference Program Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes 2017 Please note that the program is subject to change NFEAP 2017 Wednesday 7 th of June 19:00 Pre-conference meet-up at The Summit Bar, Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel, Holbergsgate 30, 0166 Oslo, Norway NFEAP 2017 Thursday 8th of June 08:30 Registration in the foyer of Pilestredet 48 (P48) 09:00 09:45 Welcome/opening (P48, S141) 09:45 09:55 Break Disciplinary coordinates Curt Rice, Rector, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences Welcome and practical information from the conference organizers Strand 2 (P48, P168 ): Feedback and positioning 09:55 10:25 The writer's body on the page: positionality in discipline and genre Marcia Rego, Duke University, US How successful is CPD in aligning teacher position with institutional position regarding feedback? Maxine Gillway, CELFS University of Bristol, BALEAP chair Conference Program, Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes, 2017 1
10:30 11:00 Taking a position in Management Anne Kiley, Kate Wilson, Linda Devereux and Maya Gunawardena, University of Canberra & University of New South Wales, Australia Responder/respondee positioning: students stances towards each other and each other s work in the HE EFL classroom Jennifer Duggan and Ingunn Ofte, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway 11:00 11:20 Coffee break Voice, position and text I Positioning and developing professional identities 11:20 11:50 Some arguments are better than others Janice Hinckfuss, ELTU University of Leicester, UK The ideal language professional: stance and credibility in TEFL applications Mohammed Albakry, Middle Tennessee State University, US 11:55 12:25 Writer positions in bachelor theses Ingrid Stock, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway A case of positioning a biochemist researcher as a scientific grantwriting specialist in a tier 1 university college of nursing to develop faculty research and writing skills Silvia Pulido, University of Central Florida, US 12:30 13:30 Lunch 13:30 14:30 14:30 14:40 Break Plenary presentation 1 (P48, S141) Positioning EAP in the 21 st century university: The need for a collaborative model Speaker Ursula Wingate, School of Education, Communication and Society at King s College London, UK Conference Program, Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes, 2017 2
14:40 15:10 15:15 15:45 15:45 16:05 Coffee break Student identities I: navigating the university The telescope and the microscope: Two complementary approaches to enhance student awareness of their position within the learning ecosystem (Re)positioning international students and EAP staff in the curriculum design cycle Neil Adam Tibbetts and Lucy Watson, University of Southampton, UK Terri Edwards, Durham University English Language Centre, UK Institutional positioning I The place and space of EAP in higher education Whose space is it anyway? Improvisational use of EAP learning spaces Physical and organisational positioning of EAP practitioners in the UK Voice, position and text II Suzanne Rankin-Dia, London College of Fashion, UK Sarah Taylor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 16:05 16:35 16:40 17:10 The position of a writing centre: theory building in an unsettled landscape One to one writing tutorials as a transformative space Ingerid S. Straume, University of Oslo, Norway Victoria Mann, University of Sheffield, UK 17:10 Close of Day 1 Rhetorical positioning across languages and cultures Positioning rhetorical devices in oral presentations 18:30 Pre-dinner drinks, Fyrhuset 19:00 Conference dinner, Fyrhuset Najwa Ben Hedia, Institut Superieur Des Sciences Humaines de Tunis- University of El Manar, Tunisia Richard Miles, Nanzan University, Japan Conference Program, Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes, 2017 3
NFEAP 2017: Friday 9th of June 09:00 9:15 Welcome/opening of Day 2 (P48, S141 ) Lars Egeland, Director Learning Centre and Library, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences 09:15 10:15 Plenary presentation 2 (P48, S141) De-positioning EAP: texts, the digital and sociomaterial practice Speaker Lesley Gourlay, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK 10:15 10:25 Break 10:25 10:55 11:00 11:30 11:35 12:05 Agency, power and empowerment What does empowerment mean? Dilemmas for teaching academic writing in the context of North- South research collaboration Positioning writing in the contemporary university workplace Agency, choice and voice in research writing: what might the theories look like in practice? Lynn P. Nygaard, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway Sharon McCulloch, Lancaster University, UK Julia Molinari, University of Nottingham, UK The voices of others: negotiating citations The value of citations: multilevel analyses of the use of citations in an interdisciplinary journal, Global Environmental Change Researching citation use in postgraduate academic writing: combining corpus methods and discourse-based interviews Fahad Aljabr, University of Birmingham, UK Qingyang Sun, University of York, UK 12:05 13:00 Lunch Conference Program, Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes, 2017 4
Institutional positioning II Student identities II: academic selves 13:00 13:30 Effective institutional rhetorical positioning of a Writing Across the Curriculum program (WAC) for faculty development Pavel Zemliansky, University of Central Florida, US Positive psychology and mastery of the academic self Aleks Palanac, The University of Leicester, UK 13:35 14:05 Teaching with writing: working towards integrating writing and writing instruction across the disciplines in higher education Ingunn Ofte, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway & Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota, US The glocalisation of selfregulatory possible selves in EAP Flordelis González-Mujico, University of the Basque Country, Spain 14:05 14:15 Coffee Break 14:15 14:45 Plans for 2018, feedback on 2017. All are welcome. 14:45 15:30 Networking meeting for EAP practitioners in Norwegian HE. All are welcome. Conference Program, Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes, 2017 5