Description
With roots going back to the 1970s in the UK and the 1990s in Europe, English Across the Curriculum and Content and Language Integrated Learning are not new concepts. Based on the fundamental notion that language is more than its form, and that language plays a central role in a student’s education, which, in turn, influences their ongoing linguistic development, the increasing importance placed upon competence-based learning outcomes is moving communication to the centre of tertiary curriculum development. In this context, Hong Kong language centres increasingly search for ways in which students’ English literacy in their discipline subjects may be most efficiently enhanced. Amongst challenges faced in this regard, is how collaborations between discipline subject academics and colleagues from the language centre can be facilitated. In their quest for the optimal way to achieve this, centres need not only to plan how such interaction is to take place, face up to a number of challenges, but also be ready to take advantage of the opportunities that such an approach can present. The panel will be discussing some of the issues involved in such collaboration and other matters that relate more broadly to the effective development of students’ disciplinary literacy skills| Period | 4 Dec 2018 |
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| Event title | 2nd International Conference on English Across the Curriculum (EAC 2018) |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Hong Kong, ChinaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |