Post-conference workshop registration
The workshops are exclusive for the conference registrants. If you have not yet registered, click here to register.
Each conference registrant is eligible to register one workshop only.
Each workshop allows 40 seats, first-come-first-served.
Professor Terry Myers Zawacki, Professor Martha Townsend and Professor Mike Palmquist
Title: Advice and Strategies for Using Writing to Learn to Write and Think in the Disciplines
[May 22 Saturday, 09:00-11:00 Hong Kong time]
Blurb: In this three-part synchronous workshop, participants will first be introduced to theory and pedagogy for using writing assignments and activities to help students learn disciplinary content and processes, think critically in a discipline, practice discourse conventions, and, for English L2 students, learn the language. Then participants will share course and disciplinary learning goals and outcomes for student writers and develop strategies for using low- and high-stakes writing tasks to help students achieve these outcomes. The workshop will conclude with discussions of strategies for responding effectively and efficiently to both informal and formal student writing.
Title: A Framework for Teaching Academic Writing | English to Students across the Curriculum
[May 22 Saturday, 09:00-11:00 Hong Kong time]
Blurb: Academic writing is complex, requiring students to understand the processes, genres, rhetorical approaches, information literacy skills, disciplinary discourse, and subject matter of a field (MacDonald, 1994). Writing | English instructors often work with other peoples’ students–students outside of their own field. How might these instructors assist these students in their journeys to become more effective with discipline-specific writing | English? In response to this challenge, The English Language Support Office (ELSO) at Cornell University, U.S., which provides support to international graduate and professional students across the university has developed the co-inquiry approach to pedagogy (Cox, Lindberg, & Myers, 2021 forthcoming). In this workshop, Dr. Michelle Cox will introduce this approach and explore, with participants, ways in which it may be adapted for their contexts.
Professor Oliver Meyer
Title: Re-thinking course design for deeper learning in tertiary education
[May 22 Saturday, 15:00-17:00 Hong Kong time]
Blurb: In this workshop I would like to illustrate how the concept of deeper learning has affected our understanding of the role of literacies in language education and how our revised understanding is shaping not only the design of individual seminars but the way we conceptualize pre-service teacher education.
Professor Do Coyle
Title: Teachers as Designers of Learning: Fundamentals of task design and sequencing
[May 22 Saturday, 16:00-18:00 Hong Kong time]
Blurb: In this workshop I will give concrete examples of why the principle of teachers as designers of learning is fundamental to pluriliteracies approaches. Exploration of how task design in terms of content and type is connected to sequencing learning is critical for deeper learning.