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 taught undergraduate and postgraduate students. I teach on the online 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 have launched and led the Administrator of the Critical Friend Network Initiative as part of the BALEAP Research and Publications sub-committee (2023-2025). 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-). Within the university, I am a member of the Pedagogic Research in the Arts (PRiA) working group.

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
• Module (Co)Leader of MA TEAP modules Text analysis and Dissertation/Portfolio

Research interests

• Various aspects of academic writing; author of Teaching academic writing for EAP: Language foundations for practitioners (2024, Bloomsbury)
• Linguistic approaches to EAP; editor of Linguistic approaches in EAP: Expanding the discourse (2024, Bloomsbury)
• Scholarship of EAP
• EAP teaching materials development
• Doctoral education

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 (The global forum for EAP professionals)
• BALEAP SIG Doctoral Education
• European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW)
• Association for Academic Language and Learning (AALL)
• International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)
• Pedagogic Research in the Arts (PRiA)

Student education

English for Academic Purposes; Teaching English for Academic Purposes