Emma Lay

At AUB, I...

...design and deliver spring term Preparation for Academic Study unit on the International Foundation Diploma;

...design and deliver term-time weekly Language For... course helping students develop their confidence and language skills for different university situations from making friends to writing reflections, from presentations to talking about problems and solutions;

... run term-time Hang Out and Write sessions with a library colleague. These are relaxed sessions for students to work on their academic writing projects with an academic writing tutor and librarian on hand for support;

...provide 1:1/small group academic support tutorials for all students, but specialising in supporting students who are studying in English as an additional language.

Previous roles include:

• Online Tutor for teacher development course Cambridge Certificate in English as a Medium of Instruction Skills with The Aga Khan University, Pakistan
• Year Manager of International Foundation Diploma at University College Birmingham
• Lecturer on 1^st year BSc English module Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults; Module Leader on Advanced Writing Erasmus/Study Abroad course; Coordinator of Reading and Writing strand of Presessional Course at the University of Leicester
• Visiting Lecturer on PGCE PCET (ESOL) at Birmingham City University
• Lecturer on BSc (Hons) English Language modules (1st year Lexicography and 3rd year Written Discourse Analysis), Lecturer on MA TESOL and Co-manager of Presessional Course at Aston University
• Lecturer on BA English for International Communication – Aichi University, Japan

Workshops and Talks

• Discussion host: The Knowledge base of the EAP Practitioner (BALEAP conference, University of Northampton, 2019)
• Talk: Lessons so far: Reflections on a collaborative embedding project (Royal College of Art, 2018)
• CPD Workshop series: Speaking Skills for Academic Purposes (Masaryk University, Czech Republic, 2013)
• CPD Workshop: Authentic listening materials: value and activities (EAP in the East Midlands, University of Leicester, 2013)
• Conference Workshop: Dogme and EAP: invigorating the EAP classroom (BALEAP, University of Nottingham, 2013)
• Conference Workshop: Current practice in feedback on students’ writing and ideas for change (Birmingham Teaching and Learning Conference, 2011)
• CPD Talk: Writing across cultures: contrastive rhetoric and our students’ writing (University of Birmingham, 2010)
• Workshop: Aston Corpus Summer School (Aston University, 2010)
• CPD Talk: Using Corpora (Aston University Teachers’ CPD Group, 2010)
• Conference Workshop: Confident Clusters: group work in the EFL classroom (Birmingham Teaching and Learning Conference, 2009)
• CPD Workshop: How smart is this SmartBoard? (Language Study Centres, Walsall, 2008)
• CPD Workshop: Reading in exam classes (invited after Bham conference) OISE CPD day, Kings College, London, 2008)
• Conference Workshop: Reading in exam classes (B’ham Teaching and Learning Conference, 2008)

Publications

• Lay, E. (2019) The Knowledge Base of EAP practitioners [online] BALEAP Publications – Professional Issues Meeting proceedings [accessed 15 February 2022]
• White, S. and Lay, E. (2019) ‘Built-in not bolted-on: embedding academic literacy skills in subject disciplines’ in Creative Pedagogies Journal 2019
• Lay, E. (2013) ‘Učitel není konvice a student šálek’ (trans. The teacher and student are not jug and mug), Interviewed by Pavel Sindelar for Zpravodaj Projektu: Masaryk University Language Centre Bulletin 4(13) [accessed 1 October 2016]
• Lay, E. (2012) ‘We’re relatives’ (Lesson for teaching relative clauses) in ELTMag vol.2 pp.4-5
• Lay, E. (2007) ‘Mairzy doats and dozy doats and and liddle lamzy divey: The importance of teaching relaxed pronunciation to learners of English’ Civilization 21. Aichi University, Japan