SSLW2026: Full Schedule

10:00 JST

Navigating SLW program administration in the time of generative AI: A colloquium

Friday October 23, 2026 10:00 - 11:40 JST

This colloquium examines SLW program administration in the time of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Addressing policy development, curriculum design, pedagogy, faculty support, and assessment, presenters explore challenges, opportunities, innovations, and principled responses for ethically integrating (or resisting) GenAI in SLW programs across diverse national contexts.

Speakers

Angela Hakim

Assistant Teaching Professor, Iowa State University

Angela Hakim is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of English. She teaches courses in Academic English, ISU Foundation Communication, Advanced Communication, and the B.A. in Linguistics, including a course in sociolinguistics. Angela serves as the Director of Academic... Read More →

Silvia Pessoa

Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Maria Pia Gomez-Laich

Thomas Mitchell

Associate Teaching Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Sandra Zappa-Hollman

Eman Elturki

Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Illinois Chicago

Jaqueline Michelle Gianico

Todd Ruecker

Colorado State University

Friday October 23, 2026 10:00 - 11:40 JST
International Conference Hall I

Colloquium

12:45 JST

Writing with AI, teaching against bias: Linguistic justice and the peer & AI review + reflection (PAIRR) pedagogical model

Friday October 23, 2026 12:45 - 14:25 JST

International Conference Hall I

This session presents Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR), a multi-institutional model integrating peer review and AI-assisted feedback grounded in linguistic justice. Presenters share PAIRR’s tested AI feedback prompts, common rubric, AI literacy curriculum, and strategies for building linguistic justice while honoring multilingual students’ voices across.

Speakers

Aparna Sinha

Julie Gamberg

DE Faculty Development Coordinator, Glendale College

Julie Gamberg is a full-time faculty member at Glendale College. She teaches English composition and humanities fully online. Julie is interested in all things pedagogy, OER, equity, and collaboration. At GCC, as the Distance Education Faculty Development Coordinator, she instituted... Read More →

Sophia Minnillo

Friday October 23, 2026 12:45 - 14:25 JST
International Conference Hall I

Colloquium

14:55 JST

Entanglements of multilingual writing

Friday October 23, 2026 14:55 - 16:35 JST

International Conference Hall I

This panel explores entanglement as an onto-epistemological reorientation for L2/multilingual writing, demonstrated through analyses of diverse material and digital sites, both in the classroom and beyond.

Speakers

Aina Tanaka

Daisuke Kimura

Yumi Matsumoto

Ivan Jin

Jerry Lee

Jung-Hsien Lin

University of California, Irvine

Friday October 23, 2026 14:55 - 16:35 JST
International Conference Hall I

Colloquium

12:45 JST

Colloquium on teachers’ professional knowledge and instructional practices across diverse writing contexts: Mapping the terrain, charting the future

Saturday October 24, 2026 12:45 - 14:25 JST

Centennial Hall

This colloquium discusses key issues in teachers’ professional knowledge and instructional practices in writing across diverse contexts, drawing on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research from multiple countries.

Speakers

Vera Busse

Prof. Dr., University of Münster

Peter Crosthwaite

Icy Lee

Qing Ma

Mark Feng Teng

Saturday October 24, 2026 12:45 - 14:25 JST
Centennial Hall

Colloquium

14:55 JST

Sixty years of contrastive rhetoric: Ecological, historical, and humane perspectives

Saturday October 24, 2026 14:55 - 17:10 JST

Centennial Hall

On the sixtieth anniversary of Robert B. Kaplan’s "Cultural Thought Patterns in Inter-Cultural Education," this colloquium will reconsider and discuss—and invite discussion of—the personal, ecological, and intellectual contexts of Contrastive Rhetoric’s initial development and its long, complex circulation in second language writing and other fields.

Speakers

Jay Jordan

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Utah

Dwight Atkinson

University of Arizona

Ulla Connor

Paul Kei Matsuda

Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing, Arizona State University

Paul Kei Matsuda is Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing at Arizona State University. Paul is Founding Chair of the Symposium on Second Language Writing and Series Editor of the Parlor Press Series on Second Language Writing. Former President of the American... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 14:55 - 17:10 JST
Centennial Hall

Colloquium

09:30 JST

New ideas and practices for responding to student writing in humane ways

Sunday October 25, 2026 09:30 - 11:45 JST

Centennial Hall

Writing teachers often find responding to student writing daunting. This colloquium recommends newly developed and tested response practices. Panelists discuss reflective writing and self-assessment, collaborative and peer feedback, implementation of technology with dialogic process, and language correction. Attendees learn practical response strategies and understand the theories behind effective feedback.

Speakers

Grant Eckstein

Betsy Gilliland

Professor & Chair, University of Hawai'i Manoa

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on writing and literacies research and pedagogy as well as courses on teacher research. I take graduate students to Thailand on a summer teaching practicum every other year.
I'm co-editor of the Journal of Response to Writing and have jus... Read More →

Madeline Crozier Sutton

Nicholas Carr

Associate Professor, University of Aizu

I am interested in Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory and its application to additional language learning. Recently, I have been working with Large Language Models to investigate their potential to provoke development.

Michele McConnel

Kelly Metz-Matthews

Kendon Kurzer

Joan Hwang

Sunday October 25, 2026 09:30 - 11:45 JST
Centennial Hall

Colloquium

12:45 JST

Policy, partnership, process, and pedagogy: GenAI infrastructure to support faculty and human-centered second-language writing

Sunday October 25, 2026 12:45 - 14:25 JST

Centennial Hall

This colloquium explores how administrators can move beyond "plagiarism panic" to support writing faculty in the age of generative AI. Grounded in AWAC guiding principles, we discuss collaborative policymaking, administrative "sandboxing," and pedagogical shifts toward process-based, personal, and project-based learning that reaffirm writing as a uniquely human act of inquiry.

Speakers

Maggie Sokolik

Director, College Writing Programs, UC Berkeley

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Margi Wald

Lecturer, Univ. of California Berkeley's College Writing Programs

Margi teaches first-year composition, reading, and grammar & vocabulary courses specifically designed for multilingual student writers. She directs UC Berkeley's Summer English Language Studies program, co-edits The CATESOL Journal, and has extensive experience presenting at a... Read More →

David Wiese

Sunday October 25, 2026 12:45 - 14:25 JST
Centennial Hall

Colloquium

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