With a growing emphasis on empowering students’ disciplinary literacy, which is a crucial skill in university education, English Across the Curriculum (EAC) has become more prevalent in many parts of the world in recent decades. Through EAC collaborations between language teachers and content teachers, students will have more concrete training and ideas about disciplinary conventions, especially in academic writing, as well as genre features, facilitating their study in the major programme. Actually, EAC work is not only beneficial to highly technical disciplines such as science and engineering, but also comprehensive ones like humanities and social science due to the involvement of a great variety of text types, ranging from conventional evidence-based essays to critical reviews, book reports and reflective journals. In this presentation, various EAC collaborations in a Hong Kong university between English teachers and subject teachers in the humanities from the Anthropology, Cultural and Religious Studies, as well as Japanese Studies Departments will be introduced. Besides providing background information of the university-wide EAC project and the nature of the target collaborations, the presenter, serving as both the project administrator and one of the frontline supporters, will also share the tips of successful implementation of the project, the challenges involved as well as the feedback from students regarding the quality of the EAC interventions. It is hoped that the experiences and insights shared will be useful to parties who are interested in or are already engaged in EAC work.

Authors:
Allen Ho, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Allen Ho is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong

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