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Preparing Future-Ready TESOL Educators in the Age of GenAI By Dr Lucas KohnkeThe Education University of Hong Kong In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, Generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping the role of TESOL educators and transforming language learning. As AI continues to drive these changes, teacher education programs must adapt to equip future educators with…

Profiling Chinese students’ bilingual learning motivation and engagement: Competition or coexistence? By Dr Barry BaiThe Chinese University of Hong Kong Learning motivation and engagement are critical factors influencing language proficiency, but previous research has primarily focused on these aspects from a monolingual perspective. This study adopted a bilingual lens to simultaneously examine motivation and engagement…

Data-Driven Learning in an EFL Writing Class: What an Experimental Study Has Revealed By Professor Guangwei HuThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University More and more linguistic corpora are publicly available today. They are potentially curricular resources that can provide teachers with pedagogical options, offer learners access to authentic language data, facilitate student-centered and discovery-based learning, and…

“Asking is faster than skimming”: AI-powered tools and what they mean for academic reading By Dr Svetlana Chigaeva-Heddad Assistant Professor / English Team Leader Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong The main aim of this session is to engage participants in discussing the impact of genAI tools on our understanding of academic literacy and…

Evolution of portfolio assessment: A focus on its transition, integration, research trends, and implications By Dr Ricky Lam Portfolio assessment has been widely adopted in general and English as a second language education for nearly four decades. Despite its significance and popularity, practitioners and scholars alike remain dubious about its usefulness, practicality, and reliability to be…

Secondary and online effects for structured input: Current and future research trends By Professor Alessandro G. Benati Processing instruction is a type of pedagogical intervention which is effective in assisting L2 learners in the correct processing and interpretation of linguistic features in the input. The primary effects of processing instruction have been measured in several…

Navigating the Future of Language Education: From Generative AI to Cyber-Physical Learning By Dr Sean McMinn In a world marked by technological advancement and societal transformation, practitioners of language education are experiencing challenges to how, what, and why we teach and assess languages. For example, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality,…

Enhancing Teacher Development Through Free Online Corpora: Advancing Corpus-Based Language Pedagogy (CBLP) By Dr Qing Ma (Angel) While the potential of corpus linguistics to enhance language teaching and learning is significant, its practical application remains largely unexplored within the professional teaching community. This workshop aims to bridge this gap by introducing participants to a selection…

Insights from my learning journey from schoolteacher to being named a top 2% most-cited scholar by Dr Benjamin Luke Moorhouse Transitioning from a professional career to one in academia can be daunting. This is due in part to the high yet sometimes unclear expectations, steep learning curve and ‘publish or perish’ culture of modern higher education.…