Consulting on English for Academic Purposes curriculla in support of disciplinary learning in universities
Director
Programs
The Nominal Group is a educational consulting service led by Dr. Alfredo Ferreira. Alfredo is a Lecturer in Science communications at the University of British Columbia and a published researcher in curriculum studies, teacher education, and academic language and writing development among multilingual scholars. He has presented his work internationally and developed and taught innovative English for Academic Purposes curricula at undergraduate and graduate levels in world-leading research universities internationally, including in Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and UBC in Vancouver.
The Nominal Group offers a range of services in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) from consulting on English language curricula to classroom-ready courses in academic communications including high-stakes written and spoken genres. Our experience extends from multidisciplinary EAP to programming designed to support language-and-content development in specific fields such as psychology, economics, chemistry and physics.