This symposium, hosted by Bath’s Disciplinary literacy & corpus-based pedagogy: The BAWESS project team, is dedicated to exploring disciplinary literacy in schools.
Disciplinary literacy, encompassing the specialised ways of reading, writing, and communicating knowledge within distinct academic disciplines, has emerged as a critical focus in education worldwide as educators and learners face the challenge of mastering subject-specific literacies in a wide range of curriculum areas, sometimes in more than one language.
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About this symposium
During this symposium, we will explore disciplinary literacy for curriculum learning, and the intersection of disciplinary language and teaching practices in the context of linguistically diverse schools from a range of contexts around the globe.
Our collection of speakers will share empirical research underpinned by theoretical insights to create a dialogue and raise awareness of the potential of disciplinary literacy to support access to the curriculum.
There will be talks and hands-on workshops focusing on the following areas of teacher professional development:
- Disciplinary knowledge and literacy
- Genres and genre-based pedagogy
- Cross-disciplinary collaboration
- Teacher/researcher collaboration
- Corpus-based pedagogy
- Data Driven Learning
This event is designed to be of particular interest to secondary school teachers, and researchers interested in disciplinary literacy, systemic functional linguistics and corpus linguistics. There will be lots of opportunities for discussion, knowledge exchange, professional development and networking.
Tickets and prices
Bookings will open soon. Please check this page for updates.
Speakers
Speakers at the symposium will include:
- Dr David Beauchamp, University of Bath
- Professor Maria Brisk, Boston College
- Chloe Butlin, Education Endowment Foundation
- Dr Duygu Candarli, University of Southampton
- Natalie Cheers, Royal High School Bath
- Professor Lise Fontaine, Université du Québec
- Professor Gail Forey, University of Bath
- Professor Meg Gebhard, The University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Dr Marlén Izquierdo, Universidad de León
- Dr Reka Jablonkai, University of Bath
- Professor Ana Llinares, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Dr Anne McCabe, St Louis University Madrid
- Dr Tom Morton, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Verity Neeves, Royal Wootton Bassett Academy
- Dr Dana Therova, University of Bath
- Dr Winfred Xuan Wen Hui, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
- and many more