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Coaching Early Childhood Teachers to Use Teaching Strategies that Support Young Children’s Literacy Development
[date]18th March, 2014[/date]
[time]12:30 to 14:00[/time]
[venue]Room204, Rumme Shaw Building, HKU[/venue]
[speaker]Dr. Wu-Ying Hsieh, LDD, Faculty of Education, HKU[/speaker]
This presentation is part of SoL-SRT Symposium – Literacy development.
Abstract
Dr Hsieh will provide information derived from a research project with a focus on teaching strategies that support emergent literacy in preschoolers. These three “skill sets” of strategies include: (a) sharing books with children; (b) developing awareness of sounds and letters; and (c) developing an understanding of the relationship between ideas and the written word. Participants will learn a coaching model as an intervention to promote early childhood teachers’ use of literacy strategies. Examples of how early childhood teachers embedded these strategies within their ongoing schedules and activities will be shared.
About the speaker
Dr. Wu-Ying Hsieh is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKU, she was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she taught graduate-level courses in Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) that aimed at preparing early childhood educators to teach all children in inclusive settings. Dr. Hsieh earned her doctorate degree in Special Education with an emphasis in ECSE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research areas include ECSE teacher preparation, inclusive education, teacher beliefs, and early literacy. She has published refereed research articles and book chapters, as well as presented her work at international conferences on the topics related to her areas of expertise.
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A Study of Evaluative Strategies in Student-produced Crime News Texts
[date]18th March, 2014[/date]
[time]12:30 to 14:00[/time]
[venue]Room204, Rumme Shaw Building, HKU[/venue]
[speaker]Ms Aditi Dubey-Jhaveri, Centennial College, HKU[/speaker]
This presentation is part of SoL-SRT Symposium – Literacy development.
Abstract
The research draws on Appraisal Theory within functional linguistics to investigate the evaluative strategies through which objectivity is constructed in 40 student-produced crime news texts obtained from a class of Associate Degree students in Hong Kong. Findings reveal that under the guise of ‘objectivity’, judgment is most commonly expressed through provocative statements in the form of direct quotes, which are attributed to different sources. In addition, judgment in crime news manifests itself through the use of typical lexical items, which are specific to the genre. This suggests that student journalists are familiar with the need to maintain the status quo in terms of complying with the expected social norms of behavior, and consequently align themselves with their community’s shared sense of moral values. However, this subtle form of subjectivity, which even amateur journalists are able to use with a certain degree of competence, may often go unnoticed by the lay reader.
About the speaker
Ms. Aditi Dubey-Jhaveri is currently working as Assistant Professor at Centennial College (a member of HKU Group). She has been teaching media, journalism, language and communications-related subjects for a decade in Hong Kong universities. After obtaining her master’s degree, she worked as a news writer and presenter for BBC World Service Radio in London, and as a sub-editor for an online portal in Hong Kong. With work experience in the mass media and a significant track record of teaching at the tertiary level, she has published a number of journal articles and book chapters in her field. In addition, she has served as a reviewer for journals such as Journalism Studies, Visual Communication Studies, and Global Communication and Social Change. She received the ‘Outstanding Teacher Award’ from HKU SPACE CC in 2007 and was later awarded the ‘Postgraduate Fellowship, 2008’ by HKU.
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