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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.…

The Implications and Applications of Large Language Models for Self-Access Language Learning  by Professor Andy Curtis As a result of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, many hundreds of millions of students and teachers had to move their classes – typically with very little time and limited institutional support (if any) – from being physically in-person and in…