Description
Michael Halliday’s systemic functional theory (SFT) (Halliday, 1994; 2004) provides a liberatory platform to understand dynamic meaning-making systems and choices in the process of modeling, analyzing, understanding, and interpreting multimodal texts, interactions and events. This paper begins with problematizing the influences of substance-based ontology on English-Medium Instruction (EMI) higher education from which academic literacies are often delimited into monolingual deliverables. This paper then uses process-based ontology (Ingold, 2010) to counter-propose a “becoming” (Barad, 2007; Ingold, 2011; Hill, 2017, Siu, Santos and Lin, 2023) approach to co-designing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-friendly classroom interactions in English for Academic Purposes (EAP). To provide empirical examples in AI-friendly EAP classrooms, a case study of 85 tertiary students enrolled in a 13-week English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course in Hong Kong is reported to investigate the potentials and challenges in using the Multimodalities-Entextualisation Cycle (Lin, 2016; 2020) as a curriculum genre (Christie, 2014) to leverage the roles of multilingual and multimodal resources (Liu & Lin, 2021) on assessment and learning. Data collection and analysis include lesson observations, focus group discussion, semi-structured interviews, course material reviews and assessment samples collected from consented teacher and student informants. Research findings point to a direction to examine how translanguaging and trans-semiotizing (Lin, 2019; Baker, 2021) may contribute to activate classroom interactions among plurilingual, pluricultural teachers and students in AI-friendly EAP classrooms, advancing the conceptual understanding of transknowledging (Heugh, 2020) in Asian EAP contexts that liberate choices of social semiotics and meta-functions (Halliday,1985) ideationally, interpersonally and textually through reciprocal meaning-making.| Period | 21 Nov 2023 → 24 Nov 2023 |
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| Event title | The Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association 2023 Conference : Celebrating Semiosis |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Wollongong , AustraliaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |