Organizer : VIT
Vellore Institute of Technology
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LANGUAGES

About the Workshop

• 8th May to 12th May 2023
• Time: 10.00AM to 12.00PM
• Free Registration
• Limited Seats E-certificate will be provided to registered participants

About VIT

VIT has made a mark in the field of higher education in India by providing quality education on par with institutions of international standards in a cross- cultural ambience, VIT was formed in 1984 by Dr. G. Viswanathan, a former parliamentarian and Minister in the Tamil Nadu Government, as a self- financing institution called Vellore Engineering College. Since then, the Institution has grown from strength to strength. It was conferred Deemed to be University status in 2001 by MHRD. VIT currently offers UG, PG, and Research programmes on its four campuses at Vellore, Chennai, Bhopal, and Amaravati. VIT Chennai is a globally engaged, competitive, comprehensive, and research- enriched university campus strategically positioned in the capital city of Tamil Nadu, to respond to major industrial, social, economic, and environmental demands and challenges. VIT Chennai is ably spearheaded by the Vice Presidents Mr. Sankar Viswanathan, Dr. Sekar Viswanathan, Mr. G. V. Selvam, Assistant Vice President Ms. Kadambari S Viswanathan, Vice Chancellor Dr. Rambabu Kodali and Pro Vice Chancellor Dr. V. S. Kanchana Bhaskaran,

The focus is:

To maximize Industrial

connectivity: To create Centers of Excellence in contemporary areas of research;

To enrich technological and managerial human capital nurtured in a multicultural ambience

To provide a common platform for the agglomeration of ideas of personnel from various walks of life for learning enrichment

To encourage participation in the national agenda of

knowledge building To foster international collaborations for mutual benefit in areas of research.

About the School of Social Sciences and Languages(SSL):

The School of Social Sciences and Languages at VIT Chennai is a beacon to the students who strive to achieve excellence in all walks of life. The School imparts state-of-the-art education and training in the fields of English, German, French, Spanish, Sociology, and Psychology, It offers PhD programmes in all these domains. The faculty of the school comprises of
qualified and goal-oriented members whose research expertise includes all frontier areas in Social Sciences and Languages.

Concept Note

Writing is considered the most challenging skill to achieve among the four macro skills, LSRW However, English writing skills. especially academic writing is essential for all professions and very necessary for higher. education. Excellent academic writing skills make the graduates employable and become skilled professionals who are industry-ready..

Designing impactful writing tusks and activities for day-to-day classroom teaching, internal assessment, and even the final summative exams help educators inculcate highly systematic, structured, and impactful academic writing capabilities. Multiple factors interplay in a complex manner in the design of academic writing tasks, activities. exercises, or questions. If they are used for instructional purposes, academic writing tasks can also be graded and closed-ended. where the learners have to complete a task to acquire a sub-skill of writing. For example. teachers can give paragraph reordering tasks to teach them the logical organization of a paragraph.

The present workshop will orient the participants to the importance of academic writing and various parameters to be considered while designing instructional or assessment tasks. Task designers and teachers must ensure that the writing task is designed to meet specific basic parameters along the lines of Bloom’s taxonomy. The concept of task based assessment, wash back effect of assessment, summative and formative ussessments will also be focused upon in the workshop.

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Coordinators:

Dr Chilkhe Ganesh Nagorno Assistant Professor School of Social Sciences and Languages Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai

Dr S Vijayalakshmi

Associate Professor School of Social Sciences and Languages Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai

Schedule and Speakers

Day 1-0 May 2023

Department of English and

Dr. Vikas Audumbar Kadam Fulbright FLTA Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, MS, USA

Foreign Languages

“Teaching Academic English to STEM Undergraduates: Considerations of 1 Based Language Assessment”

Day 2-9 May 2023 Dr S Vijayalakshmi Associate Professor School of Social Sciences and languages VIT Chennai “The Concept of Washback Effect”

Day 3-10 May 2023

Dr Gandhimathi SNS

Assistant Professor Department of English School of Social Sciences and languages

VIT Vellore “Effective Writing for Academic Purposes”

Day 4-11 May 2023 Dr Zareena JM

Faculty of English Department of Humanities

and Social Sciences

National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur

Himachal Pradesh

“Aligning Instructional and Assessment ESL Academic Writing Tasks with Bloom’s”

Day 5-12 May 2023 Dr Devi Meenakshi

Assistant Professor School of Social Sciences and languages VIT Chennai

“The Impact of Formative and Summative Assessment in Language Learning™