English Across the Curriculum: three journeys of synergy across disciplines and universities

Description

Prompted by the limited credit space to offer English for specific academic purposes (ESAP) courses and students’ low English proficiency, three English language teachers from three universities in Hong Kong decided to find in-roads in undergraduate courses to implement an adapted model of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) or Content-Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in different disciplines. The first half of this presentation describes how each of them developed professional collaborations with academic faculty to offer English handouts and resources to students. These language resources are tailor-made to align with the learning outcomes or assessments of discipline subjects. The second half reports how a government grant has increased synergies among the three English teachers as well as between them and discipline faculty through the development of a discipline-specific mobile app that helps students with the English they need to complete their final-year capstone project (FYP). The app’s functions and data collected from academic faculty and students will be presented and discussed.

Period	27 Jun 2019
Event title	The 17th Asia TEFL International Conference and the 6th FLLT International Conference : AsiaTEFL
Event type	Conference
Location	Bangkok, ThailandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International