Dr Milada (Millie) Walkova

Profile

Since I joined the University of Leeds in 2018, I have been teaching on a variety of pre-sessional courses of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) for postgraduate researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students. I am now involved in the development of the MA programme in Teaching English for Academic Purposes (Text Analysis, CPD and Scholarship, and Dissertation/Portfolio modules). I previously taught EAP, English for Specific Purposes (Engineering, Computer Science, and International Tourism) and General English in Slovakia.

I am an active scholar and I encourage scholarship in EAP. I am currently the Administrator of the Critical Friend Network Initiative as part of the BALEAP Research and Publications sub-committee. I have served on the editorial board of several journals – the Language Scholar (2019-2023), ESP Today (2023-) and Ostrava Journal of English Philology (2021-).

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the area of linguistic approaches to written academic texts. Students interested in my supervision should get in touch with a topic that is clearly related to linguistic aspects of academic writing.

Responsibilities

• Module Leader of pre-sessionals for PGRs

Research interests

• Various aspects of academic writing, with an upcoming book Teaching Academic Writing for EAP: Language Foundations for Practitioners (June 2024, Bloomsbury)
• Linguistic approaches to EAP, with an edited volume Linguistic approaches in EAP: Expanding the discourse (2024, Bloomsbury)
• Scholarship of EAP
• EAP teaching materials development

Qualifications

• PhD in English Linguistics
• DELTA Cambridge, with specialism in English for Academic Purposes
• HEA Fellow
• MA in British and American Studies, with thesis in English for Academic Purposes
• PG Cert in English Language Teaching

Professional memberships

• BALEAP
• BALEAP SIG Doctoral Education
• EATAW