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The concepts of load reduction and feedback in the context of teaching English literacy:
Transcending the genre-based approach in Australian literacy pedagogy
Ania B. Lian
Faculty of Arts and Society
Charles Darwin University, Australia
The 2023 Teacher Education Expert Panel Discussion Paper emphatically asserted the significance of understanding brain-based learning processes. This knowledge is deemed crucial for equipping teachers with the foundational insights necessary to make informed, real-time decisions. However, what would the goal of integrating "brain-based learning" involve? In her presentation, Dr. Ania Lian will utilise student-authored samples from the NAPLAN documentation as exemplars to demonstrate the pedagogic potential of incorporating and strategically integrating neuroscience evidence into teaching methodologies. This approach highlights how neuroscientific insights can enhance and inform pedagogical practices. The evidence-based framework of Ania's approach will be outlined, preliminary findings reported, and implications for future research proposed.
Publications relevant to Ania's research:
Baehaqi, L. (2023). Supporting academic skills of 2nd Year ELTE students in Indonesia in COVID-19 era through online teaching: A multisensory approach. Doctoral dissertation. CDU.
Gotlieb, R. J. M., Immordino-Yang, M. H., Gonzalez, E., Rhinehart, L., Mahjouri, S., Pueschel, E., & Nadaya, G. (2022). Becoming literate: Educational implications of coordinated neuropsychological development of reading and social-emotional functioning among diverse youth. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 71(1), 80–132.
Herrmann, C. S., Friederici, A., Oertel, U., Maess, B., Hahne, A. & Alter, K. (2003). The brain generates its own sentence melody: A Gestalt phenomenon in speech perception. Brain and Language 85(3), 396-401.
Lian, A. B. (2017) Reading for Emotion with ICT tools. In Chen, W. et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computers in Education. (Internationally refereed proceedings) New Zealand: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education.
Lian, A.B. & Norman, A. (2017). A dialogic, evidence-based framework for integrating technology into school curricula. In A.B. Lian, P. Kell, P. Black, P. & K. Y. Lie (Eds). Challenges in global learning: international contexts and cross disciplinary perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Cambridge.
Lian, A.B., Bodnarchuk, A., Lian, A-P. & Napiza, C. (2017). Academic writing as aesthetics applied: Creative use of technology to support multisensory learning. In A.B. Lian, P. Kell, P. Black, P. & K. Y. Lie (Eds). Challenges in global learning: international contexts and cross disciplinary perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Cambridge.
McGilchrist, I. (2021). The matter with things: Our brains, our delusions, and the unmaking of the world. Perspectiva.
Otten, M., Seth, A., Pinto, Y. (2017). A social Bayesian brain: How social knowledge can shape visual perception. Brain and Cognition 112, 69–77.
Sudimantara, L. B. (2021). Teaching academic writing in undergraduate English teacher education programs in Indonesia in the era of globalisation and cultural plurality. Doctoral dissertation. CDU.
Ania Lian teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the College of Education, Charles Darwin University, Australia, currently Faculty of Arts and Society. Her areas of expertise include language teaching pedagogy, literacy education, and educational neuroscience. Over the past decade, Ania has been dedicated to developing methodologies that draw on evidence from a range of relevant neighbouring fields. The integration of perspectives of related fields is imperative not only to preserve the relevance of educational models and theories but also to prevent circular reasoning. This endeavour has borne fruit, as evidenced by the promising results observed in the work of her doctoral students from Indonesia in the area of literacy in English as a foreign language. Her advocacy underscores the value of continually updating and applying novel research findings to enhance the effectiveness of literacy education.
Ania’s responsibilities include coordinating Master of Education course (2013-2018), the development of the higher degree research supervision culture, building higher degree research students’ capacity, as well as developing international links with South-East Asian countries, especially Cambodia and Indonesia. Ania is a Senior Education Adviser to the Minister of Education, Youth and Sport of Cambodia.
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