Emilienne Idorenyin Akpan
Lecturer/Director, Writing Center
American University of Nigeria
Brief Profile:
Before joining the American University of Nigeria, Emilienne was a Head of School for 6 years and she held other teaching, administrative and leadership positions. She currently teaches Freshman Composition and French, works with diverse interdisciplinary teams, and enjoys reading, writing and poetry.
Research Interests:
Effects of the mass media; Factors influencing the instruction and reception of new languages; Best practices in Writing Center and Peer Tutoring operations; Academic Integrity.
Personal pronouns: She/her/hers
Interests: Effects of the mass media; Factors influencing the instruction and reception of new languages; Writing Center and Tutoring Best Practices/Pedagogies; Globalization; Instructional Technologies.
Contact
Sessions
- (03) Capturing a digital history of local Hausa narratives in a cross-institutional, multilingual translation project across borders
- Academic integrity: Issues and solutions
- The role of Writing Centers through First Year Seminar Transitional Programs
- Crossing borders through digital media and dialogue
- Using DailyChatter to enhance engagement in a freshman composition class
- Strengthening multiliteracies through departmental collaborations
- Impact assessment of librarian-faculty collaboration to develop the digital literacy skills of a first-year composition class
- Openness in teaching, research and best practices: Initiative incorporating information & digital literacies in a first year composition syllabus at American University of Nigeria
Event attendance
- AMICAL 2023 · May 24–26, 2023
- AMICAL 2021 · Jun 21–24, 2021
- AMICAL 2020 · Jan 15–18, 2020
- AMICAL 2019 · Mar 29 – Apr 1, 2019