Inaugural Conference on Language Teaching and Learning: Cognition and Identity
- 2020
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- Department of English Language Education
Group photo during the opening ceremony
The Department of English Language Education organised the Inaugural Conference on Language Teaching and Learning: Cognition and Identity on 28 and 29 June 2019.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Professor Tong Ho Kin, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, highlighted The Education University of Hong Kong’s important role in promoting identity and cognition in language teaching and learning, and in addressing issues from a global perspective in order to have a positive impact on the well-being of the Hong Kong society and beyond.
The Conference established a knowledge-exchange platform for language education researchers, teachers and postgraduate students to share views and perspectives on issues related to the teaching and learning of languages, with particular reference to cognition and identity. A number of distinguished keynote speakers were invited to share their insights at the Conference, including:
- Professor Gary Barkhuizen (University of Auckland, Australia)
- Professor Simon Borg (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
- Professor Karen Johnson (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
- Professor Angel Lin (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
The Conference brought together more than 70 scholars from 15 different countries, including mainland China, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, the Philippines and Vietnam, to present papers covering various aspects of language teaching and learning and how they relate to overall cultural, social and political discourses in the era of neoliberalism and globalisation. A particular focus of the Conference was considering contemporary language teaching and learning in terms of the interaction between language, power and society.
