Hanne Wacher Kjaergaard
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Presentations and papers

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 Southampton, Jan 2014

I gave a talk at the LLAS annual symposium at Southampton University. Presentation entitled Interactive, systematic ICT-mediated corrective feedback can be viewed HERE. 
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EdMedia 2016, Vancouver

Got a full paper accepted for the proceedings and a subsequent journal publication: 
Kjaergaard, H.W. (2016). ICT and Feedback Practices in the Lower-Secondary Foreign Language Classroom. In Proceedings of EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2016 (pp. 1057-1066). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). 

Slides from presentation can be seen HERE

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EdMedia 2016, Vancouver

On a related topic, but not on my Ph.D. project:
Another article accepted for the same conference and subsequent journal publication:
Kjaergaard, H.W. & Fougt, S.S. (2016). “But All We Really Wanted was a Course!” Teacher Professional Development for Innovative Teaching with ICT. In Proceedings of EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2016 (pp. 835-846). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). 

Linguistics Colloquium talk, University of Victoria, Oct 2016

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Talk on Teacher Cognition, University of Southern Denmark, March 2017

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Article in AngloFiles - Journal of English Teaching in Denmark.

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As part of my research stay at UVic, I gave a talk in the linguistics department series of colloquia.  
I presented my project, preliminary findings, and foreseeable issues. Received useful feedback from the audience. 
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Announcement of the talk can be found HERE.
As inspiration to "course managers" of the induction training for Danish highschool language teachers, I gave a talk on teacher cognition and how the research in this area may help inform teacher education.

Presentation slides (in Danish) can be found HERE.
​"Skriftlig feedback i engelskundervisningen – erfaringer, muligheder og perspektiver"

The article presents some of the results of my initial teacher survey. The article is aimed at Danish (highschool) teachers of English.

The article can be accessed HERE.

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EduLearn 2017, 
Barcelona​

EUROCALL 2017, Southampton

VIA University College, Dept. of Teacher Ed., September 2017.

Paper on Student Views of Technology-Mediated Written Corrective Feedback.
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​This article reports on the preliminary findings of an investigation of student beliefs, attitudes, and practices in relation to written corrective feedback in the context of the teaching of English in lower-secondary education in Denmark. The study is related to an intervention study carried out in three 8th-grades involving three teachers, introducing technology as the mediating tool for feedback. Results show a positive perceived impact of the intervention among the students.

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​Participation in workshop, ECML, Graz Oct. 2017

Participated in a workshop of experts who were to provide feedback on a project called E-Lang. This involved feeding back on the pedagogical framework of the project, interacting with he project team and other experts from all over Europe and from Canada. It also involved testing the robustness of the framework and helping provide tasks and tools that would fit into the context of the project. Great experience and networking activities!
Great conference focusing on all things technology related to language learning and teaching. Of special interest for my project people who work with peer feedback and - not least - with how natural language processing (NLP) can enhance feedback - not necessarily 'just' as automated writing evaluation (AWE) but also as assistance to student writing and as a more efficient tool for teachers in providing feedback to their students. Thanks to Cornelia Tschichold, Carola Strobl, and Veronica Hamel for a great presentations and workshops!
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​Presentation of results, INTED 2018, Valencia

Abstract: ​In this case study on written corrective feedback in the Danish lower-secondary classroom, the beliefs and practices of three grade-8 teachers of English as a foreign language were explored, an intervention was carried out, introducing new work methods and technology, and potential changes were investigated. The study drew on three theoretical areas as its basis: The field of teacher cognition research provided methods for accessing teacher thinking, the field of second language acquisition research provided the guidelines for the theoretical and practical intervention, and theories of research into technology in foreign language teaching and learning were also employed.

Teacher beliefs and practices were sought investigated before, during, and after the intervention, which lasted 8 months. Results show that the introduction of the technology used was seen as a major agent for the changes that took place and that for the teachers, the other aspects of the intervention were difficult to separate from the technological aspect.
​Presentation of preliminary results etc. to pre-service language teachers in Aarhus. An overwhelming number of students there! Thanks for listening! :-)






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​​Defense completed -  thesis available from here

With my defense being behind me, I can now share my thesis with the world and hope that my results can in some way inspire and inform others - practitioners, researchers, policy makers and people with an interest in the three research fields I have combined in the thesis: Language teacher cognition, second language acquisition, and technology in language teaching.
You can read a copy of the thesis HERE
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CONTACT: mail: hwk @ cc.au.dk