Department Hosts Professor Angel Lin on Academic English and Multimodal Learning
On 4 May, the Department was honoured to host a talk by Professor Angel Lin, a distinguished scholar of language, literacy and social semiotics in education at the Education University of Hong Kong.
In her talk, Professor Lin reframed students’ struggles in learning academic English as an opportunity – rather than a language deficit – to adopt new approaches to learning academic English. Drawing on the framework of ecological languaging competencies and the Multimodalities‑Entextualization Cycle, she advocated moving beyond code‑centric mastery towards content‑rich, inquiry‑based learning that recognises students’ sociocultural capabilities mediated through their familiar languages and multimodalities.
In the talk, we had a fruitful discussion with Professor Lin on the practical implications of the translanguaging and multimodal approach to the teaching of university English.
