Steve Issit has a BSc in Social Science and an MEd in TESOL.

He has worked in schools, in further and higher education and for several examination boards. He is a Cambridge PET team leader and active Trinity examiner.

Steve is currently Senior Coordinator of the EAP Presessional Programme and has special responsibility for the 20-week programme. He also teaches on EISU’s insessional programme and gives regular classes in the Business School together with lunchtime language classes and one to one sessions. He has made contributions to other programmes and the CELS summer school.

He  is external examiner for De Montfort University’s MA in English Language Teaching and for Lincoln University’s EFL undergraduate units.

Steve is interested in EAP course design, academic literacy and English for the Social Sciences. He is also concerned with writing improvement and currently is developing research interests in this area.

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List of recent publications and presentations:

Publications:

Confidence, theory and criteria: improving scores on the IELTS speaking test. ELTJ .Volume 62/2 April 2008 (article) http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/ccl055?

Beyond expectations: a survey of student concerns and perceptions of change on a UK departmental presessional programme. International perspectives in Higher Education Research volume 3. International Relations. M. Tight (ed). Elsevier. 2005 (book chapter)

Beyond the stereotypes: a theme based English language course. TESOL Spain Newsletter July 2005 (article)

Classroom decision making: process syllabuses in practice. English for Specific Purposes Vol 24 Issue 2 2005 (book review)

Teaching Financial English: Modern English Teacher, July 2004 (article)

Presentations

University of Liverpool:  Fifth Corpus Linguistics Conference July 20th – 23rd 2009. Corpus as control group: measuring writing development over an intensive EAP programme

Nottingham Trent University: BALEAP PIM November 2008. Does it stick? Linguistic resource in student free writing

University of Birmingham 5th Teaching and Learning Conference February 2008. The language of University examination questions.

University of Warwick BALEAP PIM June 2007 Question types and preparation for postgraduate finance exams

University of Durham BALEAP PIM November 2006 Delivering an EAP programme for finance students

University of Birmingham 3rd Teaching and Learning Conference March 2006 Living up to expectations: a survey of student concerns and perceptions of change on a UK presessional programme.

University of Winchester: BALEAP PIM. February 2006  Living up to expectations: a survey of student concerns and perceptions of change on a UK presessional programme (* Presentation slides available in East Asian Learner, Volume 2, Number 2, May 2006)

Heriot Watt University Edinburgh. BALEAP/SATEFL Biennial conference April 2005 A critical mass; using academic sources in EAP materials production

TESOL Spain: Madrid 27th annual convention March 2004 Beyond the stereotypes: a theme-based English Language course