CPCE Funded Research Project 2020/21: A Social Semiotic Awareness Raising Approach: Co-designing EAP Assessment, Teaching and Learning Activities during Covid-19

Project Goals
1. To adopt a social semiotic perspective to EAP for re-examining the similarities and differences between using a physical classroom to conduct face-to-face teaching/ learning and using an online conferencing tool, such as Microsoft TEAMS and Moodle.
2. To investigate how EAP teaching, learning and assessment activities may be co-designed with higher awareness of seeing multiple representations of meaning-making beyond the liner view of text reading/ writing and monologic view of speaking/ listening
3. To co-design assessment, teaching and learning activities in online EAP classrooms with concrete and stable embodiment of multimodal resources and meaning-making modes accessible to teachers and students, researching on emotional affordances, such as social intimacy, self/ other disclosure and playfulness, for supporting assessment, teaching and learning activities more readily.