KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Richard Andrews

Richard Andrews is Professor in English Education at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He has previously held posts as Professor in English and Dean of the Faculty of Children and Learning at UCL Institute of Education, and at the University of York. As well as teaching at New York University and being a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he is external reviewer of ELTU at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and external examiner at The University of Hong Kong. He has published on argumentation, poetics and e-learning theory. His recent books, all published by Routledge New York, include Argumentation in Higher Education (2009), Re-framing Literacy (2010), A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric (2014) and A Prosody of Free Verse (2016). In 2018 his latest book, Multimodality, Poetry and Poetics was published. He is chair of the international advisory board for the Cambridge School Shakespeare. In 2019, a Chinese edition will be published jointly by Cambridge University Press and Beijing Language and Culture University Press.

Professor Pamela Flash

Pamela Flash serves as Director, Writing Across the Curriculum; Co-Director, Center for Writing; and Affiliate Graduate Faculty, Literacy and Rhetorical Studies Minor at the University of Minnesota. She is the founding director of the Writing Enriched Curriculum (WEC) programme which offers academic departments a structured, faculty-driven approach to strengthening relevant writing instruction within undergraduate curricula. The WEC model, currently implemented in 60 departments and programmes offering 78 major courses of study at the University of Minnesota, is also being incrementally adapted by several colleges and universities across the U.S. and in Europe. Flash is also founding director of the University of Minnesota's interdisciplinary Teaching with Writing Programme which offers an annual series of workshops, seminars, and instructional consultations designed to support effective writing instruction within diverse contexts. Her research, publications, and presentations focus on sustainable WAC programming, writing pedagogy, discourse communities, and the use of qualitative research methods to enable pedagogic change on individual, departmental, and institutional levels.

Professor David Little

David Little retired in 2008 as Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Head of the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences at Trinity College Dublin. His principal research interests are the theory and practice of learner autonomy in second language education, the management of linguistic diversity in schools and classrooms, and the use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to support the design of second language curricula, teaching and assessment. He wrote one of the preliminary studies for the Common European Framework, played a leading role in the development and implementation of the European Language Portfolio, and has been a member of several Council of Europe expert groups. Language Learner Autonomy: Theory, Practice and Research, by David Little, Leni Dam and Lienhard Legenhausen, was published by Multilingual Matters in 2017.