Academic Writing and English Language Learners Conference, Oct. 25-26, 2019

The conference for Academic Writing and English Language Learners (AWELL) is a two-day conference designed for faculty, language instructors, composition instructors, and writing centre professionals who teach and tutor ELL students. The goal of the conference is to provide tools and approaches in a workshop format that may be used directly in classrooms and tutoring sessions.

We want to provide an open forum to all those interested in any area of additional language studies and academic writing, including digital writing pedagogies, multiliteracies, plurilingualism, and intercultural writing supports. Questions for consideration may include, but are not limited to:

• Pedagogy and practice for multilingual classrooms

• ELL pedagogy relating to globalized students

• Learning community writing practice

• Technology in writing practice relating to ELLs

• Multimodal and digital approaches to ELL writing instruction and practice

• Considerations of general teaching and learning practice to ELLs 

Two-day registration ($175.00).
Saint Mary's University faculty or staff ($100.00).
Student or writing tutor ($75.00).

Registration fee includes lunches and break refreshments.
Post-conference dinner is self-funded.

Summer Writing Workshop success!

Get ready for uni is August

Fifty-five incoming, first-year students from across Atlantic Canada spent two day learning about writing and academic life at university.

Student workshops included:

• Listening to lectures and note-taking

• Writing project outlining and development

• Writing in the disciplines

• Professor’s roundtable

• Grammar and syntax

Feedback from students who attended was great.

“The workshop give you a chance to experience a small slice of the university life.”
”I learned valuable skills and I also made friends!”
”The lecture note-taking session was very informative and taught me stuff I didn’t know.”
”I now feel more prepared for SMU and university.”
”I learned a lot that I wouldn’t have thought about.”

Next year’s Summer Writing Workshop is August 18th and 19th, 2020

Save the date & CFP | Academic Writing and English Language Learners (AWELL)

October 25 & 26, 2019 | Saint Mary’s University, Halifax

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The conference for Academic Writing and English Language Learners (AWELL) is a two-day conference designed for faculty, language instructors, composition instructors, and writing centre professionals who teach and tutor ELL students. The goal of the conference is to provide tools and approaches in a workshop format that may be used directly in classrooms and tutoring sessions.

We want to provide an open forum to all those interested in any area of additional language studies and academic writing, including digital writing pedagogies, multiliteracies, plurilingualism, and intercultural writing supports. Questions for consideration may include, but are not limited to:

• Pedagogy and practice for multilingual classrooms

• ELL pedagogy relating to globalized students

• Learning community writing practice

• Technology in writing practice relating to ELLs

• Multimodal and digital approaches to ELL writing instruction and practice

• Considerations of general teaching and learning practice to ELLs 

Two-day registration ($175.00).
Saint Mary's University faculty or staff ($100.00).
Student or writing tutor ($75.00).

Registration fee includes lunches and break refreshments.
Post-conference dinner is self-funded.

[Tour] Renovated classrooms

Whether students are leading a class or faculty are facilitating discussion, an active learning classroom provides a dynamic teaching environment with movable tables and chairs, whiteboard tablets, and a variety of collaborative technologies to enrich the learning experience.

Explore two newly renovated active learning classrooms MM 028 and ME 104 to discover the classroom technology available to support discussion, collaboration, and student-led classes.

The tour will start in MM 028 then move to ME 104.

RSVP to studio@smu.ca