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Research Activities and Events

Description

Starting from a set of different approaches to academic discourse as a field of research, the Centre aims to collect and analyse different kinds of data that can be gathered in studying academic writing.  

Textual and contextual elements are taken into consideration, together with their contribution to the objectives that characterize different approaches to academic discourse studies and academic literacy studies. Special attention is paid to corpus-based approaches and corpus building.  

Research will develop alongside teaching activities and aims to: 

  • inform and develop the pedagogies of academic writing 
  • make connections between the theories and practices of academic writing 
  • contribute to current debates in the interdisciplinary field of academic writing 
  • monitor and evaluate the activities of the Centre. 

Past Events

  • Chat GPT and AI writing tools: how can we respond in Higher Education? – Marco Montali (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Enkelejda Kasneci (Technical University of Munich), Yao Rong (Technical University of Munich), Ann Devitt (Trinity College Dublin) Klaus Mundt (University of Nottingham); 3 November 2023 (see here for the video playlist)

  • “Academic Writing in English for PhD students” 20-hour intensive course
    Tutor: Dr. Niall Curry (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
    2 - 5 October 2023 Bolzano Campus

  • “Academic Writing in English for PhD students” 20-hour intensive course
    Tutor: Dr. Niall Curry (Coventry University, UK)
    10 – 13 October 2022 Bolzano Campus

  • How can we fit, sustain and embed writing in our research and teaching? – Prof. Rowena Murray (University of Liverpool, UK) – 14 November 2022
  • Using Corpus Linguistics to Study Academic Writing: Direct and Indirect Approaches  – Dr. Niall Curry (University of Coventry, UK) – 16 June 2022
  • The Centre for Academic Writing at the University of Coventry – Pedagogical and Research Approaches – Dr. Niall Curry (University of Coventry, UK) – 14 December 2021
  • Research on Academic Writing: Approaches and Data Collection – Prof.ssa Marina Bondi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) – 26 July 2021
  • Academic Writing: Approaches and Data Collection – Prof.ssa Marina Bondi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) – 23 July 2021
  • Academic Writing: Approaches and Data Collection – 23 luglio 2021, ore 09:00-13:00
    Prof.ssa Marina Bondi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
  • Research on Academic Writing: Approaches and Data Collection – 26 luglio 2021, ore 15:00-19:00
    Prof.ssa Marina Bondi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
  • Using Corpus Linguistics to Study Academic Writing: Direct and Indirect Approaches – 14 dicembre 2021, ore 09:00-13:00
    Dr. Niall Curry (University of Coventry, UK)

Talks:

Identity in a multilingual educational context: does L1 affect attitudes towards other languages at a trilingual university? – Graham Burton, Maria Cristina Gatti. International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education (ICMME) 2023, University of Malta. – 12 October 2023

Creating a new Centre for Academic Writing: how much digitalisation? – Graham Burton, Maria Cristina Gatti. Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. – 6 June 2023

English in a bilingual German-Italian community: Collecting data and investigating learner variables in creating the EdiCoMC corpus – Graham Burton, Maria Cristina Gatti. 6th Learner Corpus Research Conference. University of Padova, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies. – 23 September 2022

Transcultural norms? EAP at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano – Graham Burton, Maria Cristina Gatti. EAP Conference 2023: Towards transcultural pedagogy: dynamics in global EAP. University of St Andrews, Scotland. – 4 March 2023

Creating the Centre for Academic Writing at the Trilingual Free University of Bolzano: contexts and first steps – Graham Burton, Maria Cristina Gatti, Cecilia Lazzeretti. AIA 30 Conference ‘Experiment and Innovation: Branching Forwards and Backwards. University of Catania, Department of Humanities – 15 September 2022