This symposium, hosted by Bath’s Disciplinary literacy & corpus-based pedagogy: The BAWESS project team, is dedicated to exploring disciplinary literacy in schools.

It will bring together some of the leading educational specialists, linguists and academics in the field, who will present and discuss their latest work in the areas of:

Disciplinary knowledge and literacy
Genres and genre-based pedagogy
Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Teacher/researcher collaboration
Corpus-based pedagogy
Data Driven Learning

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.

The event is designed to be of particular interest to secondary school teachers, and promises excellent opportunities for discussion, knowledge exchange, professional development and networking. This is a two-day in-person event with refreshments provided.

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 Phil Durrant, University of Exeter
Professor Lise Fontaine, Université du Québec
Professor Gail Forey, University of Bath
Professor Meg Gebhard, The University of Massachusetts Amherst
Helen Handford, City of Wolverhampton Council
Evelyn Hargett, University of Bath
Dr Marlén Izquierdo, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/Universidad del País Vasco
Dr Reka Jablonkai, University of Bath
Professor Ana Llinares, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Dr Geraldine Mark, University of Cardiff
Dr Anne McCabe, St Louis University Madrid
Dr Tom Morton, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Verity Neeves, Royal Wootton Bassett Academy
Professor Hilary Nesi, Coventry University
John Polias, Lexis Education
Dr Rob Sharples, University of Bristol
Dr Dana Therova, University of Bath
Dr Winfred Xuan Wen Hui, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
and many more

Day 1 timetable

Wednesday 17 June

Time	Talk	Speaker(s)
8.30am - 9.15am	Arrival and Registration	-
9.15am - 9.30am	Opening	-
9.30am - 10am	Demystifying disciplinary literacy	Chloe Butlin
10am - 10.30am	The professional learning cycle: an adaptive tool to guide responsive co-planning for positive impacts on student learning	Verity Neeves, Evelyn Hargett
10.30am - 11am	Working with words to meet academic needs	Hilary Nesi
11am - 11.30am	Refreshments break (tea and coffee provided)	-
11.30am - 12pm	Addressing the language challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school using corpus linguistics	Duygu Candarli
12pm - 12.30pm	A framework for capturing task-type variation in school and university writing	Phil Durrant, Beth Curtis, Larissa Goulart
12.30pm - 1pm	Variation across ages, modalities and register in a corpus of multilingual 14–25-year-olds	Geraldine Mark
1pm - 2pm	Lunch and networking	-
2pm - 2.30pm	What’s in the THEME? Sentence starters in disciplinary texts	María Estela Brisk
2.30pm - 3pm	Improving students’ science literacy through harmonising the patterns of meaning-making in the science classroom	John Polias
3pm - 3.30pm	Spiral progression in logical meaning-making: Clause complexing in Chinese high-achieving students' expository writing across school levels	Winfred Xuan Wen Hui
3.30pm - 4pm	Refreshments break (tea and coffee provided)	-
4pm - 4.30pm	Disciplinary literacy, CLIL, and corpus linguistics	Marlén Izquierdo
4.30pm - 5pm	A corpus-based study of the nominal group in highly rated student writing	Anne McCabe, Lise Fontaine
5pm - 5.30pm	"It's not the next Tesla ...": How can an entrepreneurial approach serve children's linguistic needs	Rob Sharples

Please note: Timings and sessions may change. Please check this page regularly for updates.

Day 2 timetable

Thursday 18 June

Time	Talk	Speaker(s)
8.30am - 9am	Arrival and Registration	-
9am - 9.05am	Opening	-
9.05am - 9.30am	The BAWESS Project: Updates and insights from SFL and corpus linguistics	Gail Forey, Reka Jablonkai
9.30am - 9.50am	Designing a whole-school disciplinary literacy policy: Inclusion, inquiry and next steps	Natalie Cheers, Hadrian Briggs, Ali Parr
9.50am - 10.10am	Physics - Reengineering the physics curriculum: Language, explanation and meaning	Craig Devlin, Andrew Leather
10.10am - 10.30am	Humanities - Modality and appraisal: Developing analytical writing in history and religion and philosophy	Emma Bridgman, Anna Jenkin
10.30am - 10.40am	Q&A with all morning session speakers	All morning speakers
10.40am - 11am	Refreshments break (tea and coffee provided) and networking	-
11.am - 12.30pm	Playing with disciplinary discourses. Insight for teaching disciplinary writing to diverse students	Meg Gebhard
12.30pm - 1.30pm	Lunch and networking	-
1.30pm - 2.30pm	WIDA ELD standards as a disciplinary literacy framework through SFL - Tracing trash: Explaining how litter travels through our local waters	Ruslana Westerlund, Kelly Ann Cooney
2.30pm - 3.30pm	Transforming learning outcomes - The power of the teaching and learning cycle	Gail Forey, Natalie Cheers, Helen Handford
3.30pm - 4.30pm	Introducing data-driven learning and corpus-based pedagogy: Command words in exam questions	Reka Jablonkai, Dana Therova, David Beauchamp
4.30pm - 5.pm	CLIL students’ disciplinary literacy across disciplines and educational levels: A corpus-based longitudinal analysis	Ana Llinares, Tom Morton