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| At the time of writing, the following speakers have accepted invitations to give keynote papers: | |||
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Guy Cook | ||
| Professor Guy Cook holds the Chair of Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, U.K.. He began his career as a schoolteacher in Egypt, Italy and Britain, and went on to work at the University of Moscow, the University of Leeds (where he completed his Ph.D.) and as head of TESOL at the London University Institute of Education. He has been an invited speaker at universities and major conferences in many countries, and has published widely on discourse analysis, the theory and practice of language teaching, literature teaching, translation, and language play. His book Language Play, Language Learning (Oxford University Press, 2000) won the Modern Languages Association Kenneth Mildenberger Prize. | |||
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B. Kumaravadivelu | ||
| Professor B. Kumaravadivelu is a Professor of TESOL at San Jose State University, California. He has been a teacher and teacher educator for over twenty-five years. He holds two masters degrees, one from the University of Madras in India, and another from the University of Lancaster in England, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, USA. He has published widely in the areas of language teaching methods, task-based instruction, classroom discourse analysis, and the teaching of culture. His forthcoming book Macrostrategies for Language Teaching: Guiding Principles for a Postmethod Pedagogy is published by Yale University Press. | |||
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Shirley Geok-lin Lim | ||
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Shirley Geok-lin Lim is currently Chair Professor of English and
Head of the English Department at the University of Hong Kong, as
well as Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in English
and American Literature from Brandeis University in 1973. Her first
book of poems, Crossing the Peninsula (Heinemann Press, 1980), won
the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She is an internationally recognized
writer of prose fiction and poetry, as well as a distinguished commentator
and analyst of literary and social affairs.
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