Our next Centre Online Roundtable will be on Thursday 11 April at 6pm Sydney,
9am UK, 10am South Africa,
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Shifting from student to staff development: Reflections on recontextualising LCT
Steve Kirk, Durham University
If you’re interested in how LCT can inform teaching practices, this is a
Roundtable for you!
The big picture challenge: Closing the attainment gap for underrepresented
student groups at Durham University in the UK. The focus here: encouraging
lecturers to embed academic literacy work into their own teaching practices.
My teaching challenge: Shifting from recontextualising semantic gravity with
students to enacting a broader toolbox of LCT concepts for the academic
development work with disciplinary staff.
Talk focuses: I reflect firstly on lessons learned from enacting semantic
gravity with students across disciplines to teach academic writing, as well as
with teachers of EAP. I then report on the initial interventions for
departmental staff. These enact the semantic plane from LCT, together with
Talmy’s (2009) model of genre.
Takeaways: You’ll see a number of examples of semantic gravity enacted for
teaching and my first results from enacting the semantic plane as an
educational tool. Along the way, we’ll also consider some of the lessons
learned from recontextualising LCT concepts for practice.
WHERE?
On Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88551197196
Passcode: LCT2024
ROUNDTABLES AND JAZZ CAFÉS:
SYDNEY
UK
S AFRICA
Thurs 11 April
6pm
9am
10am
Steve Kirk
Thurs 18 April
6pm
9am
10am
Jazz café with Karl Maton
Thurs 25 April
6pm
9am
10am
Paul Curzon and Jane Waite
Thurs 2 May
6pm
9am
10am
Jazz café with Karl Maton
Thurs 9 May
6pm
9am
10am
Camilla Håkansson
Thurs 16 May
6pm
9am
10am
Jazz café with Karl Maton
Thurs 23 May
6pm
9am
10am
Jo Kukuczka
