| Title | Speaking in the Disciplines: A “Precedents” Archive for Teaching and Learning Oral Genres |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Arts |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2019 |
| Completion | 04/01/2023 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2019/2020 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Moberley Luger |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 24,853 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Moberley Luger, Lecturer, Coordinated Arts Program and English, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 1: Summary | First-Year Programs in the Faculty of Arts take a “Writing in the Disciplines” approach to teaching academic communication, inviting students to see the specific and diverse moves that scholars make in presenting their research. Yet while students have access to many precedents for scholarly writing, they have few precedents for scholarly speaking. In keeping with Giltrow et al’s claim that new genres should be taught through “practice and precedent,” this project will provide students with models for oral academic discourse. It will create an open-access website featuring: (1) a video archive of presentations from the annual, multi-disciplinary, CAP student conference; (2) a database aggregating information about selected presentations and colloquia taking place on campus; (3) coordinated curricular materials on presentations for students and faculty. By aligning academic writing and speaking pedagogies, the project will enhance learning outcomes in first year and beyond by helping students successfully to inhabit the speaking styles of the university. |
| Year 1: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2022/2023 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Moberley Luger |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 22,094 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Moberley Luger, Assistant Professor of Teaching, English Language and Literatures / Coordinated Arts Program, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 2: Summary | Most first-year writing courses in the Faculty of Arts take a “Writing in the Disciplines” approach to academic communication, inviting students to see the specific and diverse moves that scholars make in their research. Yet while students can access many precedents for scholarly writing, they have few precedents for scholarly speaking. This project provides students with models for oral academic discourse. In the first year of TLEF funding, we launched the initial pilot of the PASS (speaking.arts.ubc.ca), a web tool that currently features: (1) a video archive of presentations from the multi-disciplinary CAP student conference; (2) guides with excerpted videos to familiarize students with specific features of scholarly speaking; (3) curricular supports for faculty. Our tool enhances learning outcomes by familiarizing students with academic speaking styles. Since familiarity with academic genres is uneven and students often harbour anxieties around oral communication, our archive of student presentations directly addresses classroom inequities. |
| Year 2: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Project Report | 2022-TLEF-Final-Report-Luger-WEB.pdf |