Neil McMillan is an EAP lecturer within the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, where he works on a Transnational Education partnership with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Glasgow College UESTC). He has been teaching English, training teachers and designing courses and assessments for over 20 years in Scotland, Spain, Central America and Asia. In 2014, he co-founded the language services cooperative Serveis Lingüístics de Barcelona, through which he helped develop and run an online training course on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT). Neil has long been a practitioner and advocate of TBLT and in recent years has worked on introducing this approach both to EAP provision at Glasgow College UESTC and to vocational training contexts across Europe.  

I am mainly interested in the learning of English through participation in meaning-focused tasks, identified by a thorough Needs Analysis of the target population. Specifically, I am focused on the transfer from Needs Analysis results to task and curriculum design. Most recently, I have begun research into the practices of teaching staff at Glasgow College UESTC regarding Generative AI, with the aim of informing curriculum development and training on AI literacies for students and staff.

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My current teaching load includes delivering lectures on the following Glasgow College UESTC courses:

• English for Academic and General Purposes (UESTC1033 & UESTCHN1012)
• Engineering Communication and Career Skills (UESTC2029 & UESTCHN2005)

I am also responsible for delivering professional development workshops to the English teaching team at Glasgow College UESTC.