Description
The 8th International Conference of the Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association (LSPPC8) - Collaboration, Innovation, and ImpactDepartment of English, City University of Hong Kong
Thematic Panel:
Redesigning English for Professional Communication Assessment: Preparing Students for Future Human-AI Work Partnerships
Technological innovations such as AI-driven chatbots and video-based communication platforms have revolutionised professional communication practices and work partnerships. Professionals, as key change agents in their fields, are increasingly incorporating AI technologies to enhance communication efficiency, work productivity, and effective collaboration across interdisciplinary and cross-sector teams. While AI can enhance various stages of the professional communication processes, educators in higher education are called to re-engineer pedagogical and assessment processes to facilitate students' active engagement in reciprocal feedback literacy development (Carless & Boud, 2018) and reflective practices (Liu, et. al, 2021). This panel will showcase redesigned assessments that provide digital affordances for hybrid, dynamic assessment for learning in professional communication training contexts, ranging from social work to business and humanities.
The first paper explores a video-based dialogic feedback platform and an interactive writing feedback system to enhance multimodal communication skills for social work professionals. It presents interview data and textual analysis to demonstrate professional communication outcomes and guide hybrid communication and reflective practices through human-AI dialogues. The second paper examines guided reflection on assignments in a business communication class, highlighting its impact on learner engagement and self-regulated learning strategies. The third paper analyzes reflective practices in a professional English subject, showing how structured reflection improves self-evaluation and cognitive engagement. The final paper investigates an online visual collaboration platform's impact on student engagement in a humanities subject, using mixed-methods data to inform instructional strategies.
The panel will conclude by defining the dynamic roles of AI-generated texts and multimodal representations as social semiotic resources for professional communication. It will elucidate the evolving roles of educators in the age of large language models and technological innovations, highlighting the importance of resilience in education to nurture a generation of professionals as hybrid communication designers. The panel will discuss the interdisciplinarity of 21st-century communication skills and the challenges of transforming pedagogy to prepare students for future human-AI work partnerships.
Carless, D., & Boud, D. (2018). The development of student feedback literacy: enabling uptake of feedback. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(8), 1315- 1325. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2018.1463354
Liu, C., Hou, J., Tu, Y. F., Wang, Y., & Hwang, G. J. (2021). Incorporating a reflective thinking promoting mechanism into artificial intelligence-supported English writing environments. Interactive Learning Environments, 31(9), 5614–5632. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2021.2012812
| Period | 13 Dec 2025 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Hong Kong, ChinaShow on map |