Conference Program NFEAP 2018
Please note that the program is subject to change. Updated June 21st, 2018.
Abstracts and biographies available here.
Presentation slides available by clicking on the titles of the presentations in the program. More of the presentations to be added.
Wednesday 6th of June: pre-conference events
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| 15:00 – 18:00 | Exploring Professional Identity in a Circle of Trust, convener, Michèle le Roux, P48-P372. For details and contact information for Michèle for those who wish to sign up, click here. |
| 19:00 | Pre-conference meet-up at The Summit Bar, Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel, Holbergsgate 30, 0166 Oslo |
Thursday 7th of June
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| 08:30 | Registration in the foyer of Pilestredet 46 (P46) | ||||||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome/opening,
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| 09:30 – 10:30 |
Plenary presentation 1 (Athene) |
Speaker | |||||
| The Future of Genre Studies (abstract) | John M. Swales, University of Michigan, USA | ||||||
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Coffee break | ||||||
Strand 1 (Athene):Genealogies and Futures of Genre I |
Strand 2 (Apollo):Feedback as Genre |
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| 10:50 – 11.20 | Embedded, integrated and discipline specific – the future of teaching academic genres | Anna Maldoni, University of Canberra College, Australia | The Genre of Feedback: A New Approach to Instructor Comments on Academic Writing | Leah Schweitzer, High Point University, USA | |||
| 11:25 – 11:55 | The concept of writing acts – an alternative approach to the concept of genre? | Ingrid Stock, Norwegian University of Science and Technology | |||||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | ||||||
| 13:00 – 14:00 |
Plenary presentation 2 (Athene ) |
Speaker | |||||
| Teaching and Learning Academic Genres: The Current (and Future?) Landscape | Christine Tardy, University of Arizona, USA | ||||||
| 14:00 – 14.20 | Coffee break | ||||||
Strand 1 (Athene):Genre Collaborations |
Strand 2 (Apollo):Genre in the Classroom I |
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| 14:20 – 14:50 | Explicit instruction of genre and student writing development: Results from an interdisciplinary collaboration | Silvia Pessoa, Divakaran Liginlal, Maria Pia Gomez-Laich, & Thomas Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar | Facilitating the development of early-stage doctoral writing through the use of ‘intergenre’ texts | Katherine Taylor, University of Leeds, UK | |||
| 14:55 – 15:25 | Hidden expectations: Scaffolding subject lecturers’ genre knowledge of the assignments they set | Lisa McGrath, Sheffield Hallam University, UK; Raffaella Negretti, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Karen Nicholls, Sheffield Hallam University, UK | Scaffolding Genre Awareness across the Writing Curriculum: EAP, First-Year Writing, and WID | Rachel Riedner, Megan Siczek, Zachary Wolfe, George Washington University, USA | |||
| 15:25 – 16:00 | Coffee break | ||||||
Strand 1 (Athene):Genres in and across Cultures |
Strand 2 (Apollo):The Thesis as Genre |
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| 16:00 – 16:30 | The genre of “scholarly paper” between tradition and innovation: a preliminary study at Romanian universities | Claudia Doroholschi and Madalina Chitez, West University of Timisoara, Romania | An exploration of the factors impacting on the variation and evolution of the Pharmacy masters’ dissertation: a preliminary study | Jayne Parry, University of Hertfordshire, UK | |||
| 16:35 – 17:05 | Cultural awareness as genre awareness: Teaching argumentative writing in international contexts | Erhan Simsek, Bielefeld University, Germany | What should both mentors and mentees take into consideration when defining the genre – thesis? | Mira Bekar, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia | |||
| 18:30 | Pre-dinner drinks, at Fyrhuset | ||||||
| 19:00 | Conference dinner, Fyrhuset | ||||||
Friday 8th of June
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| 8:45 – 9:00 | Welcome/opening of Day 2, Lars Egeland, Director of the University Library, OsloMet | |||
| 09:00 – 10:00 |
Plenary presentation 3 (Athene) |
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| Research genres in contemporary academia: emerging issues and a future research agenda (abstract) | Carmen Pérez-Llantada, University of Zaragoza, Spain | |||
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Coffee break | |||
Strand 1 (Athene):Genre in EMI Settings |
Strand 2 (Apollo):Research Genres |
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| 10:20 – 10:50 | Receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge in the English-medium environment | Diane Pecorari, City University of Hong Kong, China and Linnaeus University, Sweden; Hans Malmström, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden | Macro-structures of action research articles: Old bottles for new wine? | Becky Kwan, City University of Hong Kong |
| 10:55 – 11:25 | Unpacking the EMI Lecture Genre: A look at the relationship between language quality, subject difficulty, effective lecturing behavior and student comprehension | Glenn Ole Hellekjær, University of Oslo, Norway; Renate Klaassen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands; Jennifer Valcke, Karolinska Institute, Sweden | “A new world has opened up:” The effect of teaching the move-structure of abstracts to Czech doctoral students and academics | Kamila Etchegoyen Rosolova and Alena Kasparkova, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, the Czech Republic |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Genre recognition and production: a comparative study of L1 and ESOL speakers | Anna-Lena Fredriksson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Becky Bergman, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Kathryn Strong Hansen, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Juho Lindman University of Gothenburg, Sweden | Method Descriptions in the Genre of the Research Article in Literary Studies: An Uncertain Future | Katja Thieme, University of British Columbia, Canada |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | |||
Strand 1 (Athene):Genealogies and Futures of Genre II |
Strand 2 (Apollo):Genres in and across Disciplines I |
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| 13:00 – 13:30 | Revisiting the Premises of Contemporary Genre Theory | Jerry Plotnick, University of Toronto, Canada | Expectations and Ambiguities in Disciplinary Writing: A Context-specific Exploration of Genres in the Periphery | Hannah Jones, University of Bristol, UK |
| 13:35 – 14:05 | Page Presence and The Cultural Force of Genre | Janice Hinckfuss, University of Leicester, UK | Whose job is it to teach different genres? | Seyran Erdoğan, Sabanci University, Turkey |
| 14:05-14:25 | Coffee break | |||
Strand 1 (Athene):Genre in the Classroom II |
Strand 2 (Apollo):Genres in and across Disciplines II |
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| 14:25 – 14:55 | The role of student-directed learning in crossing disciplinary and pedagogical genres | Joanna Johnson, University of Miami, Florida, USA | Putting genre into practice: textually mediated encounters with scientific knowledge | Ann-Marie Eriksson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Teaching genre as “function” first and “form” second: practical strategies for the EAP classroom | Pavel Zemliansky, University of Central Florida, USA | Indirect teaching of academic writing through science communication | Åsmund H. Eikenes, University of Oslo, Norway |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee and feedback on 2018, plans for 2019. All are welcome! | |||
| 16:15 | Conference ends | |||