George Jacobs & Chenghao Zhu

George Jacobs & Chenghao Zhu - Featured Speakers @ KOTESOL 2023

  Featured Session

Collaboration Among Educators: Multiple Authorship in Language Education Articles

Recent decades have witnessed burgeoning academic collaboration. As an important practice to achieve innovation and scientific progress, academic collaboration enables researchers to share work and exchange ideas, oftentimes across institutional, national, and disciplinary boundaries, and pool their resources and expertise. In response to a heavy emphasis on publishing, scholars have increasingly collaborated on publications in the form of multiple authorship. It is interesting to note that, however, patterns of multiple authorship seem to vary with discipline. This presentation will report research that describes the patterns of multiple authorship in language education using a bibliometric approach. This report also provides insights into how to enhance collaboration derived from the literature on Social Interdependence Theory (Johnson & Johnson, 2009).

  Invited Second Session

Walking the Talk and Walking with Students Together: Teacher Authenticity
— George M. Jacobs & Chenghao Zhu, with Jasper Roe, Qingli Guo, and Meng Huat Chau

Students often have high expectations of their teachers. We talk a lot about what students should do, such as completing assignments on time or starting paragraphs with topic sentences, but are we authentic, do we practice what we preach? This presentation shares a three-part procedure – one of many ways that teachers can be authentic. First, based on our own beliefs and experiences, in Part 1, we Talk to explain to students something we feel is important, such as being willing to say, “I don’t know.” In Part 2, we Walk Our Talk, letting students see and hear us doing what we talked about (e.g., admitting our ignorance to students and others). The highlight of the process is Part 3, when we encourage students to Walk Together with us, by also saying, “I don’t know.” Examples of teacher authenticity are shared from many teachers. 

Biosketches

George M. Jacobs teaches language and education in Singapore and beyond. His areas of interest include student centered learning, ecolinguistics, teacher authenticity, and humane education.

Chenghao Zhu is currently pursuing his PhD in the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at Universiti Malaya. He holds a master’s degree in applied linguistics from Beijing Language and Culture University. Before embarking on his PhD research journey, he was a teacher of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. His research interests include the study of second language development and corpus and computational linguistics. 

Jasper Roe is an academic, researcher, and current head of department for JCU Language School. Originally from the UK, Jasper has been living between Asia and Europe since 2014. His research interests are related to the relationship between language, discourse, and society, along with higher education and teaching, student experience, EAP, TESOL, and academic integrity. Jasper has published articles in sociology, linguistics, and education journals, including the Journal of Academic Ethics, the International Journal for Educational Integrity, and the International Journal of TESOL Studies.

Qingli Guo is a PhD student in the  Faculty of Education at Universiti  Malaya. She earned her master’s degree in teaching Chinese as a second language at Beijing Language and Culture University. Her research interest is Chinese teaching and learning.

Meng Huat Chau teaches and mentors students conducting research in applied linguistics at Universiti Malaya. He holds/has held adjunct and visiting scholar positions or professorships at Jeonbuk National University in the Republic of Korea, the University of Cambridge in the UK, and Yogyakarta State University in Indonesia. His teaching, research, and mentoring on topics in applied corpus linguistics, Global Englishes, language and writing development, multilingualism, and language education have been motivated by ecojustice considerations.

Select Sites
George Jacobs and Chenghao Zhu's Interview with The English Connection (March 2023; PDF)
George Jacobs. (2015). Collaborative Learning or Cooperative Learning?The Name Is Not Important; Flexibility Is. Beyond Words, 3(1), 32-52.
George Jacobs et al. (2022). Cooperative Learning Through a Reflective Lens. Equinox.
binte Asmawi, A., Jacobs, G. M., Guo, Q., & Renandya, W. A.  (2023). Stories of Teacher Authenticity. PeacheyPublications. (Academia)
Academia: George Jacobs
ResearchGate: Chenghao Zhu
Meng Haut Chau, Chenghao Zhu, George M. Jacobs, et al. (2022). Ecolinguistics for and Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of World Languages. 

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