Linguistic Approaches in English for Academic Purposes: Research and Practice

(This event is organised in collaboration with the Language Centre) Refreshments provided 

In this session Dr Milada Walková will talk about a new book published by Bloomsbury, Linguistic Approaches in English for Academic Purposes. The book is part of the series New Perspectives in English for Academic Purposes. Professor Alex Ding, as Series Editor, will first introduce the series. Dr Walková, as Book Editor, will then discuss the rationale for the book and the challenges of editing a publication that aspires to marry theory and practice. Dr Walková will also briefly talk about each chapter (see the book’s table of contents here), outlining the pedagogical needs it tries to address and suggesting implications for both teaching practice and further research. The talk will encourage a broader discussion of opportunities for collaborative research in EAP and in language education more broadly.

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Dr Milada Walková, FHEA is Lecturer of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at the University of Leeds, where she teaches academic English to international students and modules on MA programme in Teaching EAP. Her research interests include academic writing, EAP materials development and scholarship of EAP. She is the editor of Linguistic Approaches in English for Academic Purposes: Expanding the Discourse (Bloomsbury, 2024) and the author of upcoming Teaching Academic Writing for EAP: Language Foundations for Practitioners (Bloomsbury, June 2024).

Alex Ding is Professor of English for Academic Purposes and he is also Director of Scholarship in the Language Centre. His publications focus on EAP practitioners’ education, development and scholarship, the social and political forces and structures that impact their working lives, and the associations that strive to represent their needs. He is co-author of, with Ian Bruce, The English for Academic Purposes Practitioner Operating on the Edge of Academia (Palgrave). He is series editor of the Bloomsbury series New Perspectives for English for Academic Purposes and is currently co-authoring two books, (with Laetitia Monbec) Reimagining Language in higher education: ontology, social theory and ethics for social change (Palgrave, 2024) and (with Ian Bruce) Language, Knowledge and Society in Higher Education: The Intersection of Social, Epistemological and Linguistic Knowledge in Academic Communication (Bloomsbury, 2025). His most recent co-edited volume English for Academic Purposes Practitioners: Explorations of Agency and Identity (Bloomsbury) has just been published.