Speaker's Abstract
Title:
"Integrating GenAI with Genre-based Pedagogy in English Writing Instruction"
While recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) have opened new opportunities for integrating GenAI into language and literacy education, there remains a significant gap regarding how GenAI can be effectively integrated with linguistics-based education theories to enhance academic literacy development in English medium of education (EME) contexts.
This talk will first introduce a conceptual framework which systematically integrates GenAI with genre-based pedagogy and the PAA (Plurilingualism, Affect, Agency) model to foster students’ critical learning and writing. I will then present a collaborative action research study, where the integrated framework was implemented in an English writing course at a university in Macau, China. In the 15 weeks of instruction period, genre-based pedagogy was adopted to guide students in writing eight elemental genres (illustration, narration, description, process, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, classification). Meanwhile, students were encouraged to interact with GenAI in a series of activities including prompt engineering, utilizing multiple language resources to interact with GenAI, comparing AI-generated writings with their own writings, evaluating GenAI outputs, and reflecting critically on their collaboration with GenAI. I will present classroom learning evidence to illustrate students' agentic and plurilingual practice in navigating the GenAI-mediated learning ecology and what students gained in this critical learning process with GenAI.
This talk will conclude by proposing a refined teacher-actionable framework which integrates GenAI with genre-based pedagogy to enable students to gain access to the patterns and conventions of different academic genres while enhancing students’ critical awareness of how to engage with AI in agentic, responsible and empowering ways. This yields meaningful implications for integrating GenAI into academic literacy curriculum and instruction in EME contexts.