Engaging English Language Education Majors with High Linguistic Competence: An Academic Writing Course in a University in Hong Kong (78003)
Session Chair: Yasunori Nishina
Saturday, 17 February 2024 10:20
Session: Session 1
Room: Sri Nakorn
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Academic writing instruction at the tertiary level is often considered an uphill battle. Even though this kind of support is undeniably crucial to students’ academic survival, this area is always labelled as boring and dry. In this regard, teachers involved have to adopt a variety of strategies to stimulate students’ learning motivation so as to help them appreciate the meaning, relevance and even fun of academic writing. When it comes to student engagement, it is not limited to the use of entertaining and interactive ways to encourage students’ participation in in-class or out-of-class activities, but also the engagement at a cognitive or intellectual level. In this presentation, an academic writing course specially designed for a group of second-year English Language Education Majors (with a relatively high level of English proficiency) in a Hong Kong university will be selected as a case to illustrate the student engagement strategies. Specific emphases will be placed on the student-centered approach adopted, ranging from conducting needs analysis to contextualizing the teaching materials, taking advantage of students’ role as teachers-to-be, as well as collecting their feedback at different stages of the course. Concrete data related to the needs analysis results and students’ qualitative feedback, together with some examples of well-received teaching materials and activities, will be highlighted.
Authors:
Allen Ho, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Allen Ho is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong
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