HKU-NIE Joint Webinar: Designing Learning and Assessment with Multimodality in CLIL Classrooms

Abstract

Time: 12:30-14:00, 24 May, 2024

Agenda:

Talk 1: Designing learning with multimodality, Victor Lim

Talk 2: Designing assessment with multimodality, George Jiang

Discussion: Yuen Yi Lo

 

Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtpI-jwNeEJUjqFzbOOBo2QUguzwh19sA8Ynxczfh_LKs2TQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

 

Talk 1: Designing Learning with Multimodality (by Prof. Fei Victor Lim)

 

This talk reflects on the applications of multimodality on learning and maps the terrain by introducing three dimensions – multimodality for learning, multimodality as learning and multimodality in learning. Multimodality for learning involves the use of multimodal resources to support language and subject content learning, in recognition of the multimodal nature of disciplinary knowledge representations. Multimodality as learning extends literacy beyond language, with a focus on multimodal meaning-making in the development of students’ multimodal literacy skills as well as assessing students’ multimodal literacy and evaluating their artefacts. Multimodality in learning focuses on teachers’ orchestration of multimodal resources in the classroom as embodied teaching. It also includes studies on the multimodal critical discourse analysis of classroom resources as well as the use of multimodal learning analytics and artificial intelligence for analysing students’ signs of learning and measuring engagement in the learning process. I will discuss the areas for potential research to advance the field in relation to the three dimensions of multimodality and learning.

 

Talk 2: Designing Assessment with Multimodality (by Prof. Lianjiang Jiang)

 

Despite the increasing popularity of translanguaging as an instructional strategy and the ascending linguistic and cultural diversity in CLIL classrooms, content assessment remains monolingual and monomodally carried out in written language. There is a critical need to explore how translanguaging assessment can be designed and enacted through assessment innovations. This talk explores innovative use of digital multimodal composing (DMC) as translanguaging assessment in CLIL classrooms and the pertinent practical issues of validity, reliability, and manageability associated with such innovation.

Speaker

About the Speaker

Fei Victor Lim is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He researches and teaches on multiliteracies, multimodal discourse analyses, and digital learning. Victor has experience as Principal Investigator of several large research grants. He has received multiple awards for his teaching excellence including the John Cheung Social Media Award for exemplary and innovative use of social media in teaching in 2021, NIE Excellence in Teaching Commendation in 2022 and Nanyang Education Award (School) in 2023. Victor is an editor of Multimodality and Society as well as an associate editor of Computers and Composition and sits a several editorial boards.  Victor has published in top-tier journals on multimodality in education. He is author of the book, Designing Learning with Embodied Teaching: Perspectives from Multimodality, and lead author of the book, Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy: Teaching Viewing and Representing, both published in the Routledge Studies in Multimodality.

Lianjiang Jiang (George) is Assistant Professor of English Language Education at Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. His expertise is in multimodality and multiliteracies, with a focus on digital multimodal composing, multimodal assessment/feedback, and digital pedagogies. He is Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator of research grants funded by Research Grants Council in Hong Kong. He is on the editorial board for many journals such as TESOL Quarterly (from March-2024), Journal of Second Language Writing, and Linguistics and Education. He was listed in the World’s Top 2% Most-cited Scientists by Stanford University Ranking in 2023.

 

Yuen Yi Lo is associate professor and associate dean at Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include bilingual education, Medium of Instruction policy and classroom interaction. In recent years, she has been investigating the professional development of teachers in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and issues related to CLIL assessment. Her research has been published in Review of Educational Research, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Language Teaching Research and Language and Education, and she is the author of the book “Professional Development of CLIL Teachers”. Dr Lo is well experienced in running CLIL workshops for teachers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, assisting them in applying CLIL in classrooms.

 

Date

May 24th (Friday)

Time

12:30 - 14:00

Location

Zoom

Chair

Prof. Yuen Yi LO