Dates: 31 March - 1 April 2011
“Creating Interactive Language Classrooms through Creativity, Exploration, and Self Identity in the Asian Context”
Politeknik Negeri Jember, Jember, Indonesia
31 March – 1 April 2011 (Thursday – Friday)
We are delighted to announce the 2011 Asia Creative Writing Conference. This conference is trying to address how creative writing can be incorporated in English language teaching so that forms of creative writing like poems, short stories, plays, or other forms of creative writing can be learning tasks, which enable language learners to express themselves, their culture, society, and their world around them. Thus, through teaching creative writing to the learners, language teachers can explore these key dimensions of creative writing: (1) creativity— the ability to produce something original; (2) identity—the capability of expressing self; and (3) imagination—the ability to envision something where mind is a mediating tool for generating original thoughts.
Background
As the postmodern emerged, the concept of voice has been a critical issue in second language writing in particular. In this sense, self voicing is the ability to construct, transform, and grasp writerly identities situated within a particular language, discourse, and culture. Such self voicing can be accomplished through the realization of varied rhetorical and linguistic resources. These resources enable writers to articulate their original ideas in a mediating language (e.g., English). One of the attempts to tap into student capability of articulating inner voices is that language teachers can introduce creative writing to language classrooms in a context either where English is regarded as a second language or where it is considered as a foreign language. To neutralize these debatable terms, in this respect, English is viewed as a mediating language to make global communication or transnational interaction possible.
Creative writing is kind of imaginative tasks, which include writing personal diaries, poems, stories, dramas, novels, and plays. It is a journey of self discovery or self expression, which enables students to articulate their inner voices—original ideas. Creative writing can also promote local cultures and express one’s lived experiences. Different forms of creative writing like poems, stories, dramas, novels, and plays can be introduced to students in a way that students can promote their local cultures. Thus, creative writing is a kind of teaching practice, which helps students self express or voice their ideas creatively where imaginary power is involved. The three main dimensions of creative writing include creativity—the ability to produce something original, identity—the capability of expressing self, and imagination—the ability to envision something where mind is a mediating tool for generating original thoughts. Thus, creative writing is a sort of platform, which allows students to explore themselves, their culture, society, and their world around them. This calls for a scholarly platform, which enables language teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and teacher scholars to share different experiences and expertise with one another from a wide range of the Asian context.
Goals
The entire conference has several goals, which have significant impacts on the development of creative writing in English language teaching (ELT) and literature. Among others, such goals include:
* to build a scholarly platform for language teachers to promote creative writing in language classrooms;
* to share expertise in teaching creative writing from different perspectives, resources, and contexts;
* to enhance a solid awareness of how local cultures and self identities can be introduced to language classrooms through creative writing;
* to explore unique ideas or thoughts about creative writing instruction;
* to build a good awareness of how self expression or self discovery can be realized through creative writing;
* to build a solid awareness of how a wide range of rhetorical and linguistic inputs and resources can be introduced to language students through creative writing;
* to help language teachers gain a better understanding of creative writing in language teaching and learning; and
* to build and expand professional network or connection among language teachers in the Asian region.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION TOPICS
1) How can creative writing be incorporated into regular language curricula or syllabi?
2) How can poems, short stories, plays, or other forms of creative writing be introduced to language learners at any levels of language proficiencies?
3) Can poems, short stories, or poems be pedagogical input for language acquisition?
4) How can language teachers connect extensive reading to creating writing?
5) What approaches, strategies, or methods can language teachers design creative writing materials?
6) What kind of feedback can a language teacher use in helping students better write creatively?
7) How can the use of visual aids or other instructional media facilitate students in writing creatively?
8) How can creative writing help language teachers develop their professionalism?
9) How does creative writing enable student writers express their inner voices or self voicing?
10) How can local cultures be promoted through creative writing?
11) How do language teachers assess student creating writing ability?
12) How can creative writing be blended with ICT or Web 2.0?
PLENARY SPEAKERS & INVITED PRESENTERS
· Alan Maley (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
· Jayakaran Mukundan (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)
· Dzeelfa Zainal Abidin (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)
· Leilani Fatimah Ledesma Trompeta (Central Philippines University, the Philippines)
· Mallika Vasugi Govindarajoo (Sekolah Menengah Jalan Bukit, Malaysia)
· Muhammad Iqbal (Punjab, Pakistan)
· Nguyen Thi Hoai An (Open University, Ho Chi Mint City, Vietnam)
· Lin Lihua (Fuchou University, Fujian, China)
· Li Wei (Guizhou Normal University, China)
· Pan Ying (Fujian Hwa Nan Women College, China)
· Vishnu S. Rai (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)
· Kirk Branch, Montana State University, USA
INQUIRIES
Should you have further inquiries about conference, registration, accommodation, &
transportation in Jember, please feel free to contact us at: asiacreativewritingconference@yahoo.com, +628124985886 (Mr. Asep Samsudin), +628124944523 (Mr. Adriadi Novawan).
More information here.
“Creating Interactive Language Classrooms through Creativity, Exploration, and Self Identity in the Asian Context”
Politeknik Negeri Jember, Jember, Indonesia
31 March – 1 April 2011 (Thursday – Friday)
We are delighted to announce the 2011 Asia Creative Writing Conference. This conference is trying to address how creative writing can be incorporated in English language teaching so that forms of creative writing like poems, short stories, plays, or other forms of creative writing can be learning tasks, which enable language learners to express themselves, their culture, society, and their world around them. Thus, through teaching creative writing to the learners, language teachers can explore these key dimensions of creative writing: (1) creativity— the ability to produce something original; (2) identity—the capability of expressing self; and (3) imagination—the ability to envision something where mind is a mediating tool for generating original thoughts.
Background
As the postmodern emerged, the concept of voice has been a critical issue in second language writing in particular. In this sense, self voicing is the ability to construct, transform, and grasp writerly identities situated within a particular language, discourse, and culture. Such self voicing can be accomplished through the realization of varied rhetorical and linguistic resources. These resources enable writers to articulate their original ideas in a mediating language (e.g., English). One of the attempts to tap into student capability of articulating inner voices is that language teachers can introduce creative writing to language classrooms in a context either where English is regarded as a second language or where it is considered as a foreign language. To neutralize these debatable terms, in this respect, English is viewed as a mediating language to make global communication or transnational interaction possible.
Creative writing is kind of imaginative tasks, which include writing personal diaries, poems, stories, dramas, novels, and plays. It is a journey of self discovery or self expression, which enables students to articulate their inner voices—original ideas. Creative writing can also promote local cultures and express one’s lived experiences. Different forms of creative writing like poems, stories, dramas, novels, and plays can be introduced to students in a way that students can promote their local cultures. Thus, creative writing is a kind of teaching practice, which helps students self express or voice their ideas creatively where imaginary power is involved. The three main dimensions of creative writing include creativity—the ability to produce something original, identity—the capability of expressing self, and imagination—the ability to envision something where mind is a mediating tool for generating original thoughts. Thus, creative writing is a sort of platform, which allows students to explore themselves, their culture, society, and their world around them. This calls for a scholarly platform, which enables language teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and teacher scholars to share different experiences and expertise with one another from a wide range of the Asian context.
Goals
The entire conference has several goals, which have significant impacts on the development of creative writing in English language teaching (ELT) and literature. Among others, such goals include:
* to build a scholarly platform for language teachers to promote creative writing in language classrooms;
* to share expertise in teaching creative writing from different perspectives, resources, and contexts;
* to enhance a solid awareness of how local cultures and self identities can be introduced to language classrooms through creative writing;
* to explore unique ideas or thoughts about creative writing instruction;
* to build a good awareness of how self expression or self discovery can be realized through creative writing;
* to build a solid awareness of how a wide range of rhetorical and linguistic inputs and resources can be introduced to language students through creative writing;
* to help language teachers gain a better understanding of creative writing in language teaching and learning; and
* to build and expand professional network or connection among language teachers in the Asian region.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION TOPICS
1) How can creative writing be incorporated into regular language curricula or syllabi?
2) How can poems, short stories, plays, or other forms of creative writing be introduced to language learners at any levels of language proficiencies?
3) Can poems, short stories, or poems be pedagogical input for language acquisition?
4) How can language teachers connect extensive reading to creating writing?
5) What approaches, strategies, or methods can language teachers design creative writing materials?
6) What kind of feedback can a language teacher use in helping students better write creatively?
7) How can the use of visual aids or other instructional media facilitate students in writing creatively?
8) How can creative writing help language teachers develop their professionalism?
9) How does creative writing enable student writers express their inner voices or self voicing?
10) How can local cultures be promoted through creative writing?
11) How do language teachers assess student creating writing ability?
12) How can creative writing be blended with ICT or Web 2.0?
PLENARY SPEAKERS & INVITED PRESENTERS
· Alan Maley (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
· Jayakaran Mukundan (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)
· Dzeelfa Zainal Abidin (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)
· Leilani Fatimah Ledesma Trompeta (Central Philippines University, the Philippines)
· Mallika Vasugi Govindarajoo (Sekolah Menengah Jalan Bukit, Malaysia)
· Muhammad Iqbal (Punjab, Pakistan)
· Nguyen Thi Hoai An (Open University, Ho Chi Mint City, Vietnam)
· Lin Lihua (Fuchou University, Fujian, China)
· Li Wei (Guizhou Normal University, China)
· Pan Ying (Fujian Hwa Nan Women College, China)
· Vishnu S. Rai (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)
· Kirk Branch, Montana State University, USA
INQUIRIES
Should you have further inquiries about conference, registration, accommodation, &
transportation in Jember, please feel free to contact us at: asiacreativewritingconference@yahoo.com, +628124985886 (Mr. Asep Samsudin), +628124944523 (Mr. Adriadi Novawan).
More information here.
