Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3

DAY 1 - (6 DEC)

9:15-9:45
Registration
9:45-10:00
Opening Ceremony (WLB 203)
10:00-11:00

Plenary Session (1) (WLB 203)

Shirley Lim, USA

Identity and English language writing in Malaysia and Singapore: The soul and the market place

11:05-11:45

WLB 306

Ma. Luz C. Vilches
Philippines

Foundation-building and potential realizing: A two tier approach to English teacher education and competence

WLB 308

Fu Baoning
Hong Kong

Vowel digraphs and vowel sequences

WLB 204

Rafael Acuna
Philippines

Secular criticism and the use of English in the Philippines

WLB 310

Alan Davies &
Liz Hamp-Lyons

Hong Kong

Whose norms? Are international English tests unfair?

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NAB 311

David Deterding
Singapore

Miscommunication between Singaporean speakers and a British speaker

11:50-12:30

WLB 306

David Carless
Hong Kong

Conflict or collaboration: Native and non-native teachers in South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong

WLB 308

T.N.Tony Hung
Hong Kong

The phonology of Chinese varieties of English

WLB 204

Antonius Herujiyanto
Indonesia

English exposure and Indonesian literature English

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NAB 209

Chai Hok Tan
Singapore

The new English syllabus: Implications and strategies

NAB 311

Hilda Dhanaraj
Western Australia

Empowering English language learners for the global economy

12:30-13:50
Lunch
13:50-14:50

Country Speaker (1)
(WLB 203)

Rachel C. Gutierrez
Philippines

Studying teacher cognition: The interplay of a literature teacher's beliefs about literature, learning and teaching and her instructional practice

Country Speaker (2)
(WLB 204)

Chua Seok Hong
Singapore

Generic expectations in narrative in language and literature teaching

14:55-15:35

WLB 306

Christy Lao
USA

How to become a good reader: A study of perspective L2 English teachers

WLB 308

Zhu Shenfa
Singapore

Intonation in Singapore English: An auditory and acoustic analysis of four sentence types

WLB 204

Kingsley Bolton
Hong Kong

Hong Kong and Chinese Englishes

WLB 310

William Littlewood
Hong Kong

Task-based learning of grammar

NAB 209

C.S. David Li
Hong Kong

ELT in the expanding circle and outer circle: A plea for incorporating insights from competing paradigms

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15:40-16:20

WLB 306

Maria Chona Lin
Philippines

From research to practice: Considering context and the role of teacher as theorist

WLB 308

Yang Suying & Huang Yueyuan
Hong Kong

Functions of Be in the interlanguage of Chinese learners of English

WLB 204

Gerry Knowles
Malaysia

English in Asia: Developments in corpus linguistics in Malaysia

WLB 310

Andy Kirkpatrick
Australia

Medieval Chinese 'rules of writing' and the dicatmen of medieval Europe: Implications for the teaching of academic writing at the university

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NAB 311

Maria Angela A. Tambunting
Philippines

The effectiveness of teaching methods based on preferred learning styles

16:20-16:35
Coffee Break
16:35-17:15

WLB 306

Liu Ngar Fun
Hong Kong

Partial transcription as a tool for L2 listening and teaching

WLB 308

Huang Yueyuan & Yang Suying
Hong Kong

The acquisition of L2 English tense-aspects: A comparison of Chinese speakers and German speakers

WLB 204

Matthew Peacock & Belinda Ho
Hong Kong

Student language learning strategies across eight disciplines

WLB 310

Jiang Yuhong
China

Network-based multimedia environments in collaborative writing classrooms

NAB 209

Wang Junju
Hong Kong

Mother tonue in the foreign language classroom - an evil? A good?

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18:00 - 19:30
Conference Dinner

 

 

DAY 2 - (7 DEC)

9:00-10:00

Plenary Session (1) (WLB 203)

Guy Cook, England

Old dogmas, new directions: The changing relations of theory and practice

10:05-10:45

WLB 302

W. L. Cecilia Chu
England

Does the tongue control the mind in learning through peer discussion?

WLB 306

David Prescott
Brunei

Red, blue or yellow? Responding to teachers' in-service workshop feedback

WLB 307

Yang Ying
Singapore

Collocation awareness in the writing process

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WLB 204

Socorro Q. Perez
Philippines

Sexual/ textual politics in the women of Ophelia Dimalanta's poems

NAB 209

Zhang Yanyan
China

A tentative study on the avoiding phenomenon in Chinese college students' English writings

10:45-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:40

WLB 302

M.H.Carol Lam & Yu Weihua
Hong Kong & China

Willingness to communicate in L2: A comparative study of MainlandChinese and Hong Kong Chinese

WLB 306

Dan Lu
Hong Kong

What matters most: Hong Kong English teachers' desires and wants for proficiency enhancment

WLB 307

Peggy Ng
Hong Kong

Progressive dialogue in process writing: Creating serious epistemic roles for student writers

WLB 308

Azirah Hashim
Malaysia

A genre analysis of comment articles in Malaysia English newspapers

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NAB 209

Deng Jing
China

Cultural interference in foreign language writing

11:45-12:25

WLB 302

Viola Wong
Hong Kong

Expression or presentation(Learning through English in tertiary study)

WLB 306

Icy Lee
Hong Kong

Using dialogue journals as a multi-purpose tool for pre-service teacher preparation: How effective is it?

WLB 307

Qu Yunhua
China

An analysis of the relationship between the cognitive strategies and the writing proficiency

WLB 308

Peng Jinding
China

Learner autonomy: empower our students in a modern EFL classroom

WLB 204

Jonathan Chua
Philippines

Jose Garcia Villa's lexical idiosyncrasies: A Filipino writer's encounter with English

NAB 209

Kong Caifong & Lu Qiaoling
China

An analysis of tasks in course books for Junior English for China

12:25-13:45
Lunch
13:45-14:45

CCountry Speaker (3)
(WLB 203)

Mohd Don Zuraidah, Malaysia

Corpora and the examination of prosody in spoken data

Country Speaker (4)
(WLB 204)

J. Bismoko, Indonesia

In search of the common ground of English learning and studying in South East Asia

14:50-15:30

WLB 302

Mohsen Ghadessy
China

Attitude Change in BilingualBilingual Education: The Case of Brunei Darussalam

WLB 306

David Prescott & Michael Head
Brunei

Using action research to help teachers assess different approaches to scoring student writing

WLB 307

Wee Bee Geok
Singapore

The grammatical metaphor in students writing

WLB 308

Sydney Gonzales
Philippines

Politeness in letters to the editor in Singaporean, American and Philippine English

WLB 204

Margarita Ramos Orendain
Philippines

The English language and literature classroom as negotiated clearing: Classroom evidence from Northern Philippines

NAB 209

Huo Haihong
China

ELT for non-English majors in GUFS

15:35-16:15

WLB 302

Gary Jones
Brunei

Mono, bi or trilingual education: A question facing many education planners

WLB 306

Isabel Pefianco Martin
Philippines

Student assessment practices of content area teachers: Implications for language curriculum and instruction

WLB 307

Wu Fei
China

The course design of English composition for college students

WLB 308

F.K.Cynthia Lee
Hong Kong

Written e-mail apologies by adult Chinese learners of English

WLB 204

Vincenz Serrano
Philippines

Scribes, take note: Observation and feedback in the literature classroom

NAB 209

Mo Aiping & Chen Zhibin
China

The teaching of writing in a discourse approach to TEFL in China

16:15-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:10

WLB 302

Jane Jackson
Hong Kong

The question of language choice: From Hong Kong to Oxford

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WLB 307

Ron Darvin
Philippines

Film discourse in the language classroom

WLB 308

Ann Hendricks & Yang Ying
Singapore

Lexical collocations and transferrability

WLB 204

T.N. Tony Hung
Hong Kong

Pygmalion in Singapore

NAB 209

Y.W.Alice Chan
Hong Kong

Using an algorithmic approach to help Hong Kong ESL students overcome persistent lexico-grammatical problems

 

 

DAY 3 - (8 DEC)

9:00-10:00
Plenary Session (WLB 203)

B. Kumaravadivelu, USA

Myths, methods and macrostrategies

10:00-11:00

Country Speaker (5)
(WLB 203)

Alistair Wood, John Swan, Ann Elgar and Alfaff Nurul, Brunei

In and out of place: English in the workplace in Brunei Darussalam

Country Speaker (6)
(WLB 204)

Li Li, China

Curriculum reform and national English curriculum standard for elementary education: A brief introduction

11:05-11:45

WLB 305

Chuang Wen Hao
Hong Kong

A theoretical framework of using information technology in English teaching and learning

WLB 306

Ma Mingying
China

ELT in underdeveloped areas in China: What we can do in universities

WLB 308

Wai Bill Wilson Tam
Guam

Using service-learning as an alternative English as a second language (ESL) teaching method

WLB 309

Wen Zhisheng
China

Teaching business English in China - A genre approach

NAB 311

Liang Jianping
China

Analysis of reading difficulties for some Chinese non-English majors

11:50-12:30

WLB 305

Zhou Pin
China

The exploration of communicative strategies applied in L2 classroom - The study of conflict between teacher and learner in the L2 classroom

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WLB 308

Freeman Chan &
Mok Sui-sang

Hong Kong

Phonics Teaching in Hong Kong - Which Way?

WLB 309

Emily Verdejo-Chavez
Philippines

Designing a learning-centred syllabus for business students - The Philippine context

NAB 311

S.C. Becky Kwan
Hong Kong

Reading for literature review writing: affordances and scaffolding for the uninitiated ESL research writers

13:15- 14:15
Closing Tea Reception

 

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