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2023 Program

Full Program is available on Sched.com

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Program at a Glance

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

18:00-20:00 Pre-symposium social at Pedal Haus Brewery Tempe
730 S. Mill Avenue #102, Tempe AZ 85281 | MAP
(Many of us will be staying there after 20:00.)

Thursday, October 26, 2023

All Thursday sessions will take place in Arizona Room.

08:00-09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00-09:15 Opening ceremony
09:15-09:45 Featured paper 1: Recent scholarship on SLW
09:45-10:15 Featured paper 2: A bibliometric analysis of L2 writing
10:30-11:00 Roundtable A (concurrent)
11:05-11:35 Roundtable B (concurrent)
11:35-12:45 Lunch
12:45-14:15 Colloquium on approaches to researching genre knowledge development
14:15-14:45 Coffee break
14:45-16:15 Colloquium on concept-based and genre pedagogy
16:30-17:30 Plenary 1: Multimodal composing as a learning activity in L2 classrooms

Friday, October 27, 2023

All Friday sessions will take place in Arizona Room.

08:00-09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00-10:00 Plenary 2: Multilingual writing as public space
10:15-11:45 Colloquium on teaching and learning source-based writing
11:45-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:15 Colloquium on reconciling translingualism and second language writing
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:15 Featured paper 3: Expertise in L2 writing instruction
16:30-18:00 Colloquium on EFL writing teacher education in under-represented contexts

Saturday, October 28, 2023

08:00-09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00-11:00 Featured workshop on learning to be writing assessment literate
09:00-09:30 Concurrent session A1
09:30-10:00 Concurrent session A2
10:15-10:45 Concurrent session B1
10:45-11:15 Concurrent session B2
11:15-11:45 Concurrent session B3
11:45-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Concurrent session C1
13:30-14:00 Concurrent session C2
14:00-14:30 Concurrent session C3
13:30-14:30 Consortium on L2 creative writing (open meeting)
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:30 Colloquium on writing to learn/learning to write in Spanish and Chinese
15:00-15:30 Concurrent session D1
15:30-16:00 Concurrent session D2
16:00-16:30 Concurrent session D3
16:30-17:30 Reflections and closing ceremony

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