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Motivating Students as Language Researchers: Exploring Gender Issues Through a Linguistic Lens with Digital and Traditional Tools
Facing students from all faculties and study levels, with extremely diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, GE course teachers may often find it difficult to effectively motivate students to engage in and reflect on the theories, knowledge, and research in a discipline with which they are not familiar. Getting them to complete a hands-on linguistics research project focusing on gender issues has been a major instrument of student engagement in the GTCU2025 Gender, Language, and Creativity course that Dr Meilin Chen has been teaching. In this sharing session, Dr Chen, winner of the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching (Individual) - AY2024/25 and GE Teaching Award Winner (Individual) - AY2024/25, will first demonstrate how she scaffolds this research project assignment and provide phase-by-phase feedback via different channels to effectively lower students’ learning anxiety, increase students’ interests and motivation, and ensure successful completion of the projects.
In the second half of the session, Dr Chen will demonstrate how she utilizes different online and offline tools and techniques to foster more interactions in class, making research in different areas more accessible to students. Discussions about the role of technology in the classroom and its relation to effective classroom management will also be given. She hopes the sharing and the discussion will be helpful for interested teachers who also face challenges of creating an inclusive and supportive learning environment when dealing with difficult subject issues in GE courses.
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Topic: Motivating Students as Language Researchers: Exploring Gender Issues Through a Linguistic Lens with Digital and Traditional Tools
Date: 8 April 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 11am - 12nn
Speaker: Dr Meilin Chen, Instructor of GTCU2025 Gender, Language, and Creativity, winner of the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching (Individual) - AY2024/25 and GE Teaching Award Winner (Individual) - AY2024/25
Venue: Multipurpose Rooms (Level 2, Academic Commons, Main Library)
Highlights of the Sharing:
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- Strategies to engage diverse students in unfamiliar disciplines
- Using scaffolded research projects on gender issues to enhance learning
- Reducing learning anxiety and boosting motivation through phased feedback
- Leveraging online and offline tools for interactive and accessible teaching
- Creating an inclusive and supportive environment for sensitive topics.
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