Bookings will open soon. Please check this page regularly for updates.
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.
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 a focus on the following areas:
- Teacher professional development
- Cross-disciplinary and teacher/researcher collaboration
- Disciplinary literacy in the disciplines
- Academic Literacy in Higher Education
- Genres and Genre-Based Pedagogy
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
You can choose to attend one or both days of the event in person or online.
- Thursday: £10
- Friday: £20 (includes lunch)
- Both days: £30
- Online streaming: £10 (for both days)
No concessions are available. Registration will open soon, please check this page regularly for updates.
Day 1 (Thursday)
Day 1 (Thursday 26 June, 2pm - 7pm) will take place on our University of Bath campus (exact location TBC).
| Start | End | Session/talk | Speaker(s) | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.30pm | 2.15pm | Arrival and registration | - | - |
| 2.15pm | 2.20pm | Welcome talk | - | - |
| 2.20pm | 3pm | Enhancing Secondary Literacy Education through Genre-Based Pedagogy: A Synthesis of Research on Diverse Student Populations and Writing Development | W. W. Xuan & C. Liardet | Academic Literacy in Higher Education & Research Focus |
| 3pm | 3.40pm | Source acknowledgement in undergraduate writing: why, when and how | H. Nesi | Academic Literacy in Higher Education & Research Focus |
| 3.40pm | 4.20pm | Five educational purposes identified for the BAWE corpus | S. Gardner & H. Nesi | Academic Literacy in Higher Education & Research Focus |
| 4.20pm | 4.40pm | Refreshment break (tea and coffee provided) | - | - |
| 4.40pm | 5.20pm | Deconstructing Disciplinary Disadvantage: SFL and Subject Hierarchies | E. Matruglio | Disciplinary Literacy in the Disciplines |
| 5.20pm | 6pm | Registerial cartography in educational contexts (TBC) | C. Matthiessen | Disciplinary Literacy in the Disciplines |
| 6pm | 6.10pm | Close | - | - |
Please note: This is a provisional schedule. Some details may change ahead of the event. Check this page regularly for updates.
Day 2 (Friday)
Day 2 (Friday 27 June, 9am - 6pm) will take place at The Royal High School Bath.
Day 2 (Friday)
| Start | End | Session/talk | Speaker(s) | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.30am | 9.15am | Arrival and registration | - | - |
| 9.15am | 9.20am | Welcome talk | - | - |
| 9.20am | 10am | Text types and disciplinary literacy | P. Durrant | Text Type Variation, Genres and Genre-Based Pedagogy |
| 10am | 10.25am | Disciplinary literacy & corpus-based pedagogy: The BAWESS project | L. McCallum, D. Therova & D. Beauchamp | Text Type Variation, Genres and Genre-Based Pedagogy |
| 10.25am | 10.50am | Exam Questions & Genre in Schools | H. Handford, G. Forey, & R. Jablonkai | Text Type Variation, Genres and Genre-Based Pedagogy |
| 10.50am | 11.10am | Refreshment break (tea and coffee provided) | - | - |
| 11.10am | 11.50am | Corpora in learning about language in pre-tertiary education contexts | P. Thompson | Teacher Professional Development |
| 11.50am | 12.30pm | Towards a disciplinary literacy approach: establishing a school/ Trust-wide new way of working across the curriculum | N. Cheers & G. Forey | Teacher Professional Development |
| 12.30pm | 1.10pm | Tupac and SFL-informed Pedagogy; Critically Teaching Disciplinary Literacies in Multilingual Classrooms | M. Gebhard | Teacher Professional Development |
| 1.10pm | 2pm | Lunch | - | - |
| 2pm | 2.40pm | An analysis of presence in CLIL students’ writing in science across school levels | A. Llinares, T. Morton & N. Nashaat-Sobhy | Disciplinary Literacy in the Disciplines |
| 2.40pm | 3.20pm | Literacy in Industrial Technology: Reading & Writing in the Construction of Physical Objects | Y. Doran | Disciplinary Literacy in the Disciplines |
| 3.20pm | 3.40pm | Refreshment break (tea and coffee provided) | - | - |
| 3.40pm | 4.20pm | Transforming disciplinary literacy: A scaffolded, functional approach to collaborative and contextualised teacher professional development | H. Chen, P. Jones, E. Matruglio, & B. Derewianka | Teacher Professional Development |
| 4.20pm | 5pm | Designing instruction to develop teachers’ Disciplinary Linguistic Knowledge for science and health literacies | S. Humphrey | Teacher Professional Development |
| 5pm | 5.10pm | Close | - | - |
| 5.15pm | - | Dinner (optional) | - | - |
Please note: This is a provisional schedule. Some details may change ahead of the event. Check this page regularly for updates.