English-medium Education (EME) Symposium 2024:
Developing teachers' and learners' academic language skills and abilities
Date: 26th April 2024 (Friday)
Time: 11:50-18:10 (11:30-12 Registration)
Location: M3017, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre (CMC), City University of Hong Kong, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong
This conference brings together researchers, practitioners, educators and teachers from various disciplines and regions to share their insights and best practices on how to enhance teaching and learning of academic language skills and related areas in the field of English-medium Education (EME). With the theme “Developing teachers and learners’ academic language skills and abilities”, the Symposium will present a global view of EME with experts from local and overseas sharing their perspectives.
Theme: Developing teachers' and learners' academic language skills and abilities
The Symposium is organised by the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong. It features plenary speakers in both Hong Kong and Overseas. There will also be on-site paper presentations and a discussion panel with experts from the field of English language education. With this hybrid mode of presentation, the joint Symposium will facilitate intellectual exchange between participants from different education contexts, despite geographical distance and time difference. We believe this will be an exciting event and we are glad that you are part of it! We would like to thank the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research, Education Bureau, Hong Kong SAR Government for their generous funding for the project and organsing this symposium.
Plenary Speakers (Overseas)
Samantha Curle
Reader, Director of Studies of the Advanced Quantitative Research Methods Programme, Department of Education, University of Bath, UK
Gene Thompson
Associate Professor & Director, Bilingual Business Leader Program, Department of Global Business, College of Business, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Angel Lin
Chair Professor, Department of English Language Education, The Hong Kong Education University
Yuen Yi Lo
Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Jack Pun
Assistant Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong
Jookyoung Jung
Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Plenary Speakers (Local)
Daniel Fung
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Sihan Zhou
Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xuyan (Christy) Qiu
Assistant Professor, Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Rui (Eric) Yuan
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Macau
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Pramod Sah
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language Education, The Hong Kong Education University