DECOLONIZING LANGUAGE BELIEFS AND IDEOLOGIES IN ELT by Ruanni TUPAS

Abstract The English Language Teaching classroom is not an isolated social vacuum but an institutional global(ised) space. Therefore, my talk centres on the coloniality of our beliefs and practices in ELT. While many argue that colonialism is a thing of the past, the discourses and practices associated with it continue to shape most, if not […]

FUTURE-LOOKING PRINCIPLE-BASED CURRICULUM INNOVATIONS by Julia CHEN

Abstract This summary of a keynote address delivered at the 6th CELC Symposium presents some observations about the accelerated creation and adoption of curriculum innovations triggered by both the pandemic and rapid technological advances. It then discusses innovations in learning and teaching to prepare students for the world of VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. […]

DIGITAL TOOLS FOR PROMOTING SOCIAL READING by Tamara TATE & Mark WARSCHAUER

Abstract We know that students benefit from social learning: collaboration can help students process and understand new information, see different perspectives, and create a community of learners. However, reading in undergraduate classes is often a solitary activity. Annotation has long been known as a way to support reflective reading. Recently available social e-reading tools now […]

FOREWORD

The Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) held its sixth Symposium online, from 30-31 May 2022.  Symposium 2022 gathered 144 researchers and educators from 14 countries in the pursuit of scholarly dialogue on the theme TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION IN A CHANGING LANDSCAPE: INNOVATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES. This year’s theme built upon many of our […]

Content

Selected Papers from the 6th CELC Symposium for English Language Teachers Editorial Committee: Mark Brooke, Shenfa Zhu, Anuradha Ramanujan, Tetyana Smotrova, Sylvia Sim First published: November 2022 Click to view a full listing of the symposium abstracts: ABSTRACTS Click to view the PDF version: 6th CELC Symposium Proceedings Foreword LEE Kooi Cheng Keynote addresses Digital […]

IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE WRITING SUPPORT THROUGH TRAINED PEER TUTORS IN A WRITING AND COMMUNICATION HUB

Doreen TAN        Sarah Priya SOMARAJAN     Amelyn Anne THOMPSON         Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND The Writing and Communication Hub (WCH) by the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) is created to help students from any discipline improve and increase their confidence in their […]

Video, Reflective Practice and Teacher Education, Steve Mann

This talk is aimed at teacher educators who are looking to increase their awareness of the way that digital video can be prioritized and exploited in language teacher education. It has recently been argued that we have reached a ‘tipping point’, where views and practices are changing as we innovate with and adapt to improved capabilities […]

A Note on ‘Teaching Philosophies’

Zhou Ziqian Jan is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication I received an MA (Philosophy and Politics) from the University of Edinburgh, an MPhil (Philosophy) and a PhD (Philosophy) from University College London. I serve on the General Education Committee (Provost’s Office), CELC’s Faculty Teaching Excellence Committee (FTEC), the Faculty of Arts […]

REFLEXIVITY AND SCHOLARSHIP: TO WHAT ENDS DO WE UNDERTAKE SCHOLARSHIP? Alex Ding

One of the major issues within EAP and similar fields is the purpose(s) of scholarship for and by practitioners. Not only is there resistance within the field to practitioner scholarship, but there are also conflicting discourses around the purposes of scholarship. One such view holds that scholarship must be directly related to student education, learning, […]