[ACLA-CAAL] Canadian Consortium on Second Language Writing talk w/ Tomoyo Okuda Feb 26

[Ismaeil Fazel]

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce the launching of the Canadian Consortium on Second Language Writing (#CCSLW<https://twitter.com/hashtag/CCSLW?src=hashtag_click>) -- a series of conversations about L2 writing in Canada and beyond -- this month. We will start with a series of four talks on Zoom. Our first talk will be with Tomoyo Okuda, presenting on "The writing centre and international students in a Japanese university”. It will take place Friday, Feb, 26 at 10 am PST. Registration is available here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-writing-center-and-international-students-in-a-japanese-university-tickets-140451224393. A Zoom link will be shared with those who register.

More information is below. Please sign up below and feel free to forward this to anyone else who may be interested. We hope CCSLW will grow beyond these events and we will need your input!

all the best,
Ismaeil Fazel and Joel Heng Hartse


Canadian Consortium on Second Language Writing presents:
“The writing centre and international students in a Japanese university” with Dr Tomoyo Okuda
Friday, Feb, 26 at 10 am PST
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-writing-center-and-international-students-in-a-japanese-university-tickets-140451224393.
The writing center and international students in a Japanese university: a language management perspective

One of the institutional challenges of taking in large numbers of international graduate students is supporting their academic literacy skills. To accommodate a large population of international students, Japanese universities offer various services to support their academic studies and life-related issues, such as hiring international student advisors, offering Japanese language courses, and implementing peer-support programs. As a type of academic support for writing for international students, writing centers have caught the attention of universities in the last decade. To examine the institutional role of the writing center at a Japanese university, this study employs a language management lens to compare the beliefs and interests among administrators, tutors, and international students in improving international students’ Japanese writing. Interviews with the three groups of participants displayed incongruences between the administrators’ interests aligned with institutional goals, the educational philosophy of the writing center, and international students’ language learning needs. The findings point to the tutors’ crucial role as language specialists who inform organized language management, and the necessity for collaboration between academic support units and faculty members in providing sufficient academic socialization environments for international students.
Presenter’s Bio:Tomoyo Okuda graduated with a Ph.D. in TESL from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She has done research on second language writing, writing centers, internationalization of higher education, and language policy. Her articles appear in such journals as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Second Language Writing, and Current Issues in Language Planning.
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The Zoom link for the talk will be sent out to registrants via email





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