CES5E6-Problematizing academic writing

With a vast language teaching experience, Dr. Heng Hartse describes his first experiences in ESL education as he tried to understand students’ backgrounds more in depth and trying to build bridges among the international students. He talks about second language writing and the difficulties some have when it comes to adapt to the Western forms of academic writing. He also discusses the tensions, challenges and possibilities of an EFL/ESL teacher. In understanding these, Dr. Heng Hartse explains translingual practice, world languages and English as a lingua franca (ELF) as concepts that respond to the emerging multilingual students in today’s classrooms.

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Biography:
Dr. Joel Heng Hartse is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, where he teaches academic literacy and TEAL teacher training courses. His work focuses on academic writing at the intersection the internationalization of higher education and the globalization of English, and has appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing, Asian Englishes, Composition Studies, Across the Disciplines, the Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, and English Today. He is co-author of the book Perspectives on Teaching English at Colleges and Universities in China (TESOL Press) and vice president of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing. See more at www.joelhenghartse.com

Cite this podcast (APA):
Ortega, Y. (Producer). (2021, June 1). CES5E6 – Problematizing academic writing. https://soundcloud.com/chasingencounters/ces5e6-problematizing-academic-writing

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Sources:
Fazel, I. & Heng Hartse, J. (2020). Gray areas of academic publishing: ‘Predatory journals’ under the lens. Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 1(2). 157-67. https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.20008.faz

Heng Hartse, J., Lockett, M. & Ortabasi, M. (2018). Languaging about language in an interdisciplinary writing course. Across the Disciplines, 15(3), 89-103. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/atd/trans/henghartseetal2018.pdf

Heng Hartse, J. (2018, October). On the possibility of a non-error-based approach to second language writing. TESOL Second Language Writing Interest Section Newsletter. Retrieved from http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolslwis/issues/2018-10-23/2.html

Heng Hartse, J. & Kubota, R. (2014.) Pluralizing English? Variation in high-stakes academic texts and challenges of copyediting. Journal of Second Language Writing 24, 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2014.04.001