The Intersections of Student Engagement and Academic Integrity in the Emergency Remote ‘English for Academic Purposes’ Assemblage

Authors

  • Eugenia Vasilopoulos
  • Francis Bangou

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20360/langandlit29621

Keywords:

Intersections, Student Engagement, Emergency Remote Teaching

Abstract

This paper explores the disruption of space, place, and material conditions brought on by the migration of traditional on-site language teaching to emergency remote teaching (ERT) in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program designed to bridge international students into higher education. We focus on two aspects of language teaching considered essential to academic success: student engagement and academic integrity. Through the Deleuzian concept of assemblage and post-qualitative inquiry, data vignettes from interviews with 12 teacher participants are presented to examine the contingency and relationality between the affordances of technological tools and the absence of embodied connection brought on by the move to ERT. Data vignettes are linked to map how instructors’ perceptions of student engagement mediated through space, place, and materials, inadvertently shape/are shaped by perceptions of academic dishonesty.

Author Biographies

Eugenia Vasilopoulos

Eugenia (Gene) Vasilopoulos has a Ph.D. in the Second Language Education from the University of Ottawa, where she also teaches. Most recently, her work centers on the socio-materiality of English language teaching and learning, particularly among international students as newcomers to Western higher education. Her most recent publications appear in the Canadian Modern Language Review and the OLBI Journal.

Francis Bangou

Francis Bangou is a Professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ottawa, specializing in the field of second language education. Part of his research is grounded in Deleuzo-Guattarian and new materialist scholarship and focuses on the adaptation of language teachers and learners to unfamiliar teaching and learning contexts, the training of language teachers, and the integration of information and communication technologies in language teaching.

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Published

2022-06-30

How to Cite

Vasilopoulos, E., & Bangou, F. (2022). The Intersections of Student Engagement and Academic Integrity in the Emergency Remote ‘English for Academic Purposes’ Assemblage. Language and Literacy, 24(1), 6–23. https://doi.org/10.20360/langandlit29621

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Vol. 24 No. 1 (2022): Literacy Entanglements and Relationality, Time, Place, Space and Identity

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