Programme Schedule

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Time Y301 Y302 Y303 Y304
08:30
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09:00
Registration      
09:00
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09:15
Welcome      
09:15
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10:00
Invited speaker - Ken Hyland - New Beginnings or Same Again? Preparing for 2012      
10:05
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10:45
Marshall Warren Yin - Paraphrasing through reading and responding Joanna Lee & Ellie Law - Developing autonomous writers in a report writing course Miranda Legg - The importance of focusing on prewriting tasks for first year undergraduate students within an EAP course Alan Urmston, Michelle Raquel, Jane Lockwood & Eva Lui - Using a Web-based Language Assessment to Diagnose Student's Reading and Writing Needs
10:45
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11:15

Coffee

11:15
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11:55
Roxanne Wong - The challenges of transforming students into sophisticated writers of English Grace Lim & Anna Cheung - A corpus approach to learning application letters Clarence Wang & Natalie Fong - An Initiative in Developing Students' Academic Literacy Through English Courses David Gardner - Online publishing: Authentic writing opportunities for learners
12:00
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12:40
Lowana Philips - From painting to paragraph: from looking and reading to writing

Workshop

This workshop will be in A302. Places are limited so please sign up when you arrive
Peter Voller & Liz Sampson - Utopian Phalansteries: Designing a course for architectural literacy Lillian LC Wong - Issues in designing a cross-cultural "English in the Discipline" EAP course Sannie Tang & Pauline Burton - Engaging students in the language classroom through PTV: Poetry Videos
12:45
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14:15

Lunch

Time Y301 Y302 Y303 Y304
14:15
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14:55
Laetitia Monbec, & Ivy Sek - Better readers, better writers through unpacking sentences Jane Lockwood - What does genre-based pedagogy offer to novice undergraduate students? Simon Burfoot - Incorporating collocation knowledge learning into new language courses for 2012 Cynthia Lee - Writing and Technology: Voices of second language writers
15:00
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15:40
Hazel Chiu - Small group introductory reading sessions for developing interest and ability in extensive reading Freeman Chan & Julia Chen - Developing a discipline-specific language subject for the 4-year curriculum Emma Bruce & Eva Lui - Introducing summary writing to develop better readers and writers Juliana Chau, Cameron Darcy, Richard Brooke, Visanna Lee & Peggy Lui - Supporting writing development in online learning in the four-year curriculum
15:40
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16:10

Tea

16:10
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16:50
Shari Lughmani & Kay Smith - The First Steps: Piloting the Reading and Writing Requirements Philip Smyth, Ashley Hazell-Yildirim, Tess Hogue, Carolyn Ngai & Polly Tse - The processes and challenges in developing text-based courses for Business and Economics students Dean Fisher & Stephen Bolton - Summary writing skills for lower-level learners: the CityU experience Bruce Morrison - Portraits of the student as a young academic writer: Challenges faced by non-native student writers in an English-medium university
16:55
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18:00
Round table discussion -
Prof. Ken Hyland
Dr. Jane Lockwood
Dr. Bruce Morrison