Establishing Peer Learning in an ESL Setting : Successes and Challenges

Helen Lavender

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Helen Lavender is a senior lecturer at the English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently involved in setting up peer-tutoring support for undergraduate and postgraduate students as part of an initiative to promote English Across the Curriculum. She has over 24 years' experience in ELT, teacher training and educational management and she previously set up and managed the self–access centre at the Hong Kong University of Education. 

Ashley Hazell

The University of Hong Kong

Ashley Hazell is currently EAP lecturer and Self-Access Coordinator at the Centre for Applied English Studies, The University of Hong Kong. She has 23 years’ experience in ELT and previously worked at Sabanci University and Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. Ashley has an MEd TESOL and MA Museum Studies

Abstract

Peer learning has long been adopted as a support service in higher education to improve cognitive, metacognitive and affective learning. In the areas of developing academic writing peer learning has more recently been... [ view full abstract ]

Summary

This presentation describes how peer learning schemes with an aim of developing English language proficiency and independent learning capability were established at two Hong Kong universities. The pedagogy of peer learning,... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Helen Lavender (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  2. Ashley Hazell (The University of Hong Kong)

Topic Areas

Language Skills: Writing, Reading, Speaking, and Listening , Learner/ Teacher Autonomy

Session

OS-4C » Concurrent 4-C (13:45 - Saturday, 15th April, Albert Long Hall John Freely)

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