Symposium: BAWE 10 years on (June 2019)

This event was held at the Coventry University London Campus on the afternoon of Friday 7th June and all day Saturday 8th June 2019 and the programme was as follows:

Friday   7th June

14.15- 15.00 Tom Cobb, Université du Québec à Montréal: ‘What do learners actually do with a corpus?’

15.00 – 15.45 Short talks on the use of BAWE in lessons and materials:  Sian Alsop, Coventry University,  Maria Leedham, Open University and Paul Wickens: Oxford Brookes University.

15.45- 16.15 Break

16.15 – 17.00 Mick O’Donnell, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: ‘The automatic annotation of BAWE’

17.00 – 17.45 Roy Cross, British Council: ‘Writing for a Purpose, developments and use’

Saturday  8th June

10.15 – 11.00 Peter Crosthwaite, University of Queensland: ‘Taking DDL online:  Student engagement with the BAWE through short private online courses’

11.00- 11.30 Michelle Evans, University of Leeds: ‘Using the BAWE genre family classification to explore university genres in Vietnam’ 

11.30 -12.00 Karin Whiteside, University of Reading: ‘Utilising the BAWE Genre Family Framework to redesign a discipline-specific in-sessional provision: An analysis of core module PGT Business School genres’

12.00 – 13.00 lunch

13.00 – 13.45 Shari Dureshahwar Lughmani, English Language Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University: ‘The influence of BAWE on teaching academic writing at universities in Hong Kong’

13.45 – 14.15 Ursula Wingate & Andrew Drummond, Kings College London: ‘Applying the BAWE genre families’

14.15 – 14.45 Benet Vincent & Hilary Nesi, Coventry University: ‘BAWE Quicklinks for DDL’

14.45 – 15.00 tea

15.00– 15.30 panel roundup