Keynote Speaker
Diane Larsen-Freeman
Diane Larsen-Freeman is Professor Emerita, Research
Scientist Emerita, and former Director of the English
Language Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. She is also a Professor Emerita at the Graduate SIT
Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont and a Visiting Senior
Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
"A New Way of Thinking"
Plenary Speakers
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Professor Vijay
K Bhatia retired from City University of Hong Kong, and is now a Visiting
Professor in Hellenic American University in Athens, and Adjunct Professor at
the Chinese University in Hong Kong. He was also the Founding President of
the LSP and Professional Communication Association for the Asia-Pacific Rim.
He has more than 150 publications to his credit.
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Wen Qiufang WEN Qiufang works at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) as Professor of applied linguistics and Director of BFSU Academic Council. She is also Vice President of Asia TEFL and President of China English Language Education Association, and editor of Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics (in English) and of Foreign Language Education in China (in Chinese). She has obtained three national and four provincial awards for excellence in teaching. She is also an experienced researcher and writer, having published more than 170 papers and 17 books, and has finished/is conducting more than 30 research projects. Her research interests include second language teaching and learning, teacher professional development and national language capacity. PLENARY: "Dialectical research method for instructed second language acquisition" WORKSHOP: ”Implementation of dialectical research methodology in doing research on ELT in the real world“ |
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Icy Lee is Professor in the Faculty of Education at The
PLENARY: " Feedback Literacy Development for EFL |
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Phil Benson Phil Benson is Professor of Applied Linguistics and coordinator of the Multilingualism Research Group at Macquarie University. He has taught English as a foreign language in North Africa, the Middle East, Malaysia, Japan and Hong Kong. His main research interests are in the area of multilingualism and include informal language learning beyond the classroom, language learning environments and the language experiences of migrants and international students. His preferred research methods are qualitative and he is especially interested in narrative inquiry and mapping as approaches to language learning research. "PLENARY:Where are languages learned? Globalization, localization and language learning environments." "WORKSHOP:Mapping as a tool for self-reflection on language learning in and out-of-class" |
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Luciana C. de Oliveira Luciana C. de Oliveira, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Miami, Florida. Her research focuses on issues related to teaching English language learners (ELLs) at the K-12 level, including the role of language in learning the content areas and teacher education, advocacy and social justice. Currently, Dr. de Oliveira’s research examines scaffolding practices and the teaching of writing to bilingual students in elementary classrooms. Dr. de Oliveira has over 20 years of teaching experience in the field of TESOL. She was an elected board member (2013-2016) and will be installed as President (2018-19) of TESOL International Association in March 2018. PLENARY: "Teaching Writing across Elementary, Secondary and University Levels" WORKSHOP: "Six Cs of Support for Scaffolding Across Grade Levels" |
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Rodney H. Jones Rodney H. Jones is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading. He is author (with Christoph Hafner) of Understanding Digital Literacies: A practical introduction (Routledge, 2014), and editor of the Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity (Routledge, 2015). His most recent monograph is Spoken Discourse (Bloomsbury, 2016). PLENARY: "Technology and Language Learning: From print to algorithms" WORKSHOP: "Mediated discourse analysis as a framework for designing and evaluating learning activities." |
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Antony John Kunnan Antony John Kunnan (PhD, UCLA) is a language assessment specialist. His research interests are fairness of tests and testing practice, assessment literacy, and statistics. He has held professorial positions in Los Angeles, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. He is currently Professor of English at the University of Macau. He has given more than 120 plenary talks, seminars and workshops in over 35 countries. He has also published books, book chapters, and journal articles in language assessment. His latest authored book is Evaluating Language Assessments (Routledge, 2017) and edited work is The Companion to Language Assessment (Wiley, 2016). PLENARY:"How can teachers be responsible language assessors?" |
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Gustavo González Teacher of English and international presenter. Holds a postgraduate degree from the National University of Buenos Aires, a postgraduate diploma on Education and New Technologies from Flacso and has completed a course on Neurosciences for Educators at Asociación Educar. Been in the ELT field since 1993, working as a teacher, school coordinator, teacher trainer and presenter. He is a Freelance PD trainer for Oxford University Press and Trinity College London. Former vice president of APIBA, the Buenos Aires English Teachers’ Association and former vice president of FAAPI, the Argentine Federation of English Teachers’ Association. gugonzalez1970@gmail.com PLENARY: "21st Century Learning: Going Beyond the Classroom Door" WORKSHOP:"What Lies Within: Helping Students Communicate Effectively and Affectively" |