Rob Playfair
@RobPlayfair
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English for Academic Purposes Practitioner @imperialenglish. PhD researcher @BirkbeckLCAL. Ethnographizing the heteroglossia of EAP. #tleap
London, England
Joined September 2010
Sorry to have missed this, anyone attend? Anti highlights? #tleap
Our PIM at Portsmouth is about to begin. We’re looking forward to discussing challenges & tensions in EAP Mats design. If you’re live posting, use #PortsmouthPIM to share your thoughts. Have a great day everyone!
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Looks very useful for #tleap Interesting points of comparison with @Michell04246373 and @alexanderding recent social theory book which has related aims. https://t.co/5CtC1yvqd7
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Check out our chapter in Studies in Language Testing. Lots of useful work in this series for #tleap and assessment folk
Volume 56 of the Studies in Language Testing series includes a chapter from me and @EdTedC about teachers working in #tleap assessment roles. Lots of other interesting case studies in the volume, too. Open access: https://t.co/ioEgRjtcbe
@taf_sig @TEd_EAP
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📕SIG members @EdTedC & @RobPlayfair research lang assessment literacy, & how the TAFSIG Piloting Network can support #eap practitioners. https://t.co/u1mEJbZ137 Then find out more about the (free!) network here: https://t.co/jXLknTKY8W
#tleap
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Volume 56 of the Studies in Language Testing series includes a chapter from me and @EdTedC about teachers working in #tleap assessment roles. Lots of other interesting case studies in the volume, too. Open access: https://t.co/ioEgRjtcbe
@taf_sig @TEd_EAP
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1/4 @LaetitiaM19 and I have just submitted our manuscript to Palgrave and our book ' Recovering Language in Higher Education: Social Justice, Ethics and Practices' should be published in the next few months.
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Despite only tweeting and liking the niche topic of #tleap my timeline on this app shows me anything but... Where can online discussions happen now? Linkedin? BALEAP mailing list? Mastodon? Missed this at the time but reposting as it's a good question with good thread so far.
@AL_BALEAP and other #tleap colleagues - what would you say are the major contributions of Ac Lits to EAP? and conversely, what are the contributions of EAP to Ac Lits (if any)?
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Needs analysis is associated with practical pedgogical outcomes: designing / evaluating a course. Could it also be used for social critique? Even Benesch's work was about working within existing educational systems, rather than as a study of the education system itself. #tleap
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Many pre-sessional courses in the UK now have far fewer students than in pre-covid boom years. How have the courses changed as a result of being smaller? less factory-like? more scope for experimentation / alt approaches? Smaller classes? Different institutional remit? #tleap
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LLMs exhibit covert racism through dialect prejudice, showing even more negative biases against AAE speakers than humans:
nature.com
Nature - Despite efforts to remove overt racial prejudice, language models using artificial intelligence still show covert racism against speakers of African American English that is triggered by...
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An interview with Claudia Strauss about her book What Work Means. Of interest to those of us in #tleap 'non-standard' employment, perhaps. https://t.co/jqxvGJEly2
campanthropology.org
Communication, Media and Performance
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Many in #tleap are studying part time. Maybe this is of interest. Also this site they mention with personal accounts of part time doctoral researchers https://t.co/T1X3IKXcZp
@jodynic @universe_circus @NiamhMullen4 @danielanthonyos @jo_kukuczka @pace_ou
thrivingparttime.com
Everything you need to know to not just survive but thrive during your part-time doctorate
Making your part-time doctorate work for you #PhDchat
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He defines context as a subjective mental model based on what each person perceives as relevant in the social environment, mediated by their individual background.
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Van Dijk (2009) argues that social context has no direct influence on discourse. Otherwise we would all do the same thing when on the same situation. #tleap
#ethnography
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Quote above from Kovala (2014) with a useful looking list of references. https://t.co/OU5NvwkOPW
degruyterbrill.com
Theories of meaning, even outspokenly textualist ones, have always dealt with the question of relevant context as well, to some extent at least. In many fields of research, the idea of an encompass...
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Why bother theorising context? I think this is a very important question for #tleap. Context can easily be overlooked / downplayed leading to simplifications / unfounded generalisations. But then, what theories of context can we use to avoid this?
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This connects to Hadley's 'professional disarticulation' when researching #tleap managers. I haven't been in the field long enough to get a sense of a trend (decline or otherwise) but would be interested to hear perspectives of those who have.
Why I coined the term ‘Pedagogy of Professional Decline’. If this bothers you too. Keep calling it out. https://t.co/koK9xeDx0O
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The @baleap podcast sounds great! If you’d like to hear what me, @RobPlayfair & @jodynic thoughts after attending @KCLFoundations PIM: Collaboration, Power and Influence then definitely worth listening to ep 1 🎧 @IwonaPringle @lucy_worldwide (+ co-presenters) get shoutouts🎙️
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