NFEAP 2009

Venue: Ground floor, PA 128 Apollo auditorium. Registration, coffee, lunch on 2nd floor, Course- and Conference Centre

Themes: Language Centres in Higher Education, Academic Writing, Use of Corpora, Language Acquisition, EAP and Staff: Intercultural Communication Skills
This year we have planned some longer sessions with hands-on exercises/workshops as well as shorter presentations
This programme may be subject to small changes.

9.00 Registration	Theme	Speaker 1	Speaker 2
9.30-11.30 Session 1 Chair: Nancy Eik-Nes, NTNU	Language /writing centres: Planning, staffing, university strategies, organisation	Andrew Grenfell, Newcastle University, UK: Open access language centre	Magnus Gustafsson,Chalmers Open Communication Studio, Gothenburg: Chalmers Open Communication Studio (CHOCS) in the context of the Chalmers Centre for Language and Communication
11.30 – 12.30	Lunch
12.30-14.00 Session 2 Chair: Judith Torvik, HiT Telemark University College	Integrating English into a mainstream subject	Mary Martala University of Hertfordshire, U.K.Integrating English into a mainstream subject + workshop
coffee
14.30-15.30 Session 3 Chair: Ann Torday Gulden, OUC/HiO	Language acquisition	Hans Malmström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm: Research project in vocabulary acquisition EVA	Lynell Chvala/Mona Flognfeldt, Oslo University College OUC (HiO): Improving the Acquisition of English Vocabulary for Academic Purposes: Theory and Practice
18.00, 19.30	Drinks at SAS Holbergs pl. at top floor bar, then Greek dinner at Alexandros nearby. Payment (flat rate of NKr 250, plus any drinks and so on) to restaurant directly on the night!

9.00-10.00 Session 4 Chair: Sigrid Brevik Wangsness, OUC/HiO	Teaching academic writing	Rhonwen Bowen, University of Gothenburg: Teaching academic writing across the full academic spectrum: reflections from a course in academic writing at the University of Gothenburg	Nancy Eik- Nes, Norwegian University of Technology NTNU: My text is perfectly correct. So what’s wrong with it?
Coffee + cakes
10.30-11.30 Session 5 Chair: Barbara Blair, HiB Bergen University College	Corpora and academic writing	Andreas Eriksson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg: Using corpora in teaching EAP	Daniel Lees Fryer, OUC/HiO: A Personalized Corpus Approach to Developing Academic English Writing Skills: Initial Experiences from an Ongoing Pilot Course
11.30-12.30 Session 6 Chair: Daniel Lees Fryer, OUC/HiO	HE Staff internationalization	Jenny Leonard: Introduction on University of Hertfordshire , UK.Staff courses/U.Herts. policy 60 min presentation+ workshop
12.30-13.30	Lunch
13.30-14.00 Chair: Ann Torday Gulden OUC/HiO	Summing up	Whole group , ideas for future EAP cooperation?
14.00-15.00 Chair: Judith Torvik, HiT Telemark University College	NFEAP meeting: plans 2009-2010	For anyone interested