Day 1 Day 2
| Day One: Wednesday 1st August 2007 | ||
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| 9am | Registration | |
| 10am | Welcome | Professor Hideo Itoh, Hiroshima International University, Japan. |
| 10.15am | Keynote Presentation | Professor Laurence Anthony, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. |
| 11am | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11.15am | Session 1 | |
| 1.1 PROFICIENCY AND SPEECH VOCABULARY: A STUDY ON THE NICT-JLE CORPUS | Shin'ichiro ISHIKAWA, Kobe University, Japan. | |
| 1.2 EXPLORING NEWSPAPERS: A CASE STUDY IN CORPUS ANALYSIS | George R S Weir, Nikolaos K Anagnostou, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. | |
| 1.3 A DIACHRONIC QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST YEAR EFL TEXTBOOKS OF JAPAN: WITH A FOCUS ON THE INTRODUCTION OF VERBS | Hironobu Matsuoka, Yasuda Women’s University, Japan, Tsutomu Umamoto, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Japan, Toshiaki Ozasa, Fukuyama Heisei University, Japan, Naoko Motooka, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Japan. | |
| 12.30pm | LUNCH | |
| 2pm | Session 2 | |
| 2.1 DEVELOPMENT OF A READABILITY INDEX FOR JAPANESE LEARNERS OF EFL*1 (1)*2 An Interim Report | Toshiaki Ozasa, Masayasu Fukui, Mitsuhiro Hosokawa, Fukuyama Heisei University, Japan, Fumiko Miyoshi, Japan. | |
| 2.2 CORPUS LINGUISTICS IN A NUTSHELL: A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR JOHN SINCLAIR | Monika Szirmai, Hiroshima International University, Japan. | |
| 2.3 AVERAGE COLLOCATION FREQUENCY AS AN INDICATOR OF SEMANTIC COMPLEXITY | Nikolaos K Anagnostou, George R S Weir, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. | |
| 3.45pm | Session 3 | |
| 3.1 A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS OF THE FIVE ASIAN EFL COUNTRIES WITH A FOCUS ON VERBS | Tomoo Asai, Hiroshima Minami Senior High School, Japan, Koji Uenishi, Setsunan University, Japan, Noriko Abe, Ariake College of Technology, Japan, Toshiaki Ozasa, Fukuyama Heisei University, Japan. | |
| 3.2 EVALUATING THE USE OF SOFTWARE IN PRONUNCIATION LEARNING: THE CASE OF MALAY ESL SPEAKERS | Ahmad Nasaruddin Sulaiman, Asiah Kassim, University of Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. | |
| 3.3 PHONETIC KNOWLEDGE IN LANGUAGE LEARNING: A CASE STUDY OF JAPANESE LEARNERS OF HUNGARIAN | Gábor Pintér, Kobe University, Japan. | |
| 3.4 THE GENDER AWARENESS IN THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS OF FIVE ASIAN EFL COUNTRIES | Tomoko Nakamura, Hiroshima International University, Japan, Toshiaki Ozasa, Fukuyama Heisei University, Japan, Kiyomi Watanabe, Hiroshima Saniku Gakuin Jr. and High School, Japan. | |
| ~5pm | Session ends | |
| 7pm | Dinner : Japanese Restaurant 'Naniwa', 6th Floor, Rihga Royal Hotel | |
| Day Two: Thursday 2nd August 2007 | ||
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| 9am | Registration | |
| 9.30am | Keynote Presentation | Dr George R S Weir, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK |
| 10am | Session 4 | |
| 4.1 LEARNING KATAKANA & HIRAGANA: EXPERIENCE ON THE USE OF COMPUTERIZED LESSONS FOR COMPLETE BEGINNERS | Asiah Kassim, Ahmad Nasaruddin Sulaiman, University of Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. | |
| 4.2 SYNTACTIC EFFECTS ON EFL LEARNERS’ READING TIME | Katsunori Kotani, Kansai Gaidai University/National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Takehiko Yoshimi, Ryukoku University/ National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Takeshi Kutsumi, Ichiko Sata, Sharp Corporation, Hitoshi Isahara, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. | |
| 4.3 PRESENT PERFECT OF THE FIRST-YEAR EFL TEXTBOOKS OF JAPAN A diachronic quantitative comparison | Naoko Motooka, Hiroshima Prefectural University, Japan, Toshiaki Ozasa, Fukuyama Heisei University, Japan, Tsutomu Umamoto, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Japan, Hironobu Matsuoka, Yasuda Women’s University, Japan. | |
| 11.15am | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11.30am | Session 5 | |
| 5.1 APPLICATION OF TEXT MINING TECHNOLOGY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NAMING SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR CIVIL CONSTRUCTIONS | Keiko Ishihara, Shigekazu Ishihara, Hiroshima International University, Japan, Mitsuo Nagamachi, Kyushu University, Japan. | |
| 5.2 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE FREQUENCY OF INFINITIVE VERBS IN FIVE ASIAN EFL TEXTBOOKS | Koji Uenishi, Setsunan University, Japan, Yoko Fujiwara, Ouchi Junior High School, Japan, Seishin Miura, Akita University, Japan, Toshiaki Ozasa, Fukuyama Heisei University, Japan. | |
| 5.3 A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS OF FIVE ASIAN EFL COUNTRIES WITH A FOCUS ON THE PRESENT PERFECT TENSE | Yoko Fujiwara, Ouchi Junior High School, Japan, Tomoko Nakamura, Hiroshima International University, Japan, Toshiaki Ozasa, Fukuyama Heisei University, Japan. | |
| 12.45pm | LUNCH : 'Marco Polo' restaurant in 'Shukukeien' Japanese Garden | |
| 2.15pm | Session 6 | |
| 6.1 A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS OF THE FIVE ASIAN EFL COUNTRIES WITH A FOCUS ON READABILITY | Noriko Abe, Ariake College of Technology, Japan, Tomoo Asai, Hiroshima Prefectural Hiroshima Minami High School, Japan, Mariko Sakamoto, Kagoshima National College of Technology, Japan, Toshiaki Ozasa, Fukuyama Heisei University, Japan. | |
| 6.2 WIRELESS READY? THE USE OF WIRELESS LAPTOPS TO PROMOTE LITERACY AND INTERACTIVITY IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM IN JAPAN | Michael Thomas, Nagoya University of Commerce & Business, Japan. | |
| 6.3 VERBALS IN JAPAN’S FIRST-YEAR EFL TEXTBOOKS : A DIACHRONIC QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON | Yoshio Hosaka, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, Haruo Erikawa, Wakayama University, Japan, Seishin Miura, Akita University, Japan, Ranjan C. K. Hettarchchige, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. | |
| 3.30pm | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | |
| 3.45pm | Session 7 | |
| 7.1 A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS OF FIVE ASIAN EFL COUNTRIES WITH A FOCUS ON VOCABULARY | Seishin Miura, Akita University, Japan, Yoshio Hosaka, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, Ranjan C. K. Hettarchchige, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Toshiaki Ozasa, Fukuyama Heisei University, Japan. | |
| 7.2 VOCABULARY OF THE FIRST-YEAR EFL TEXTBOOKS OF JAPAN A DIACHRONIC QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON | Toshiaki Ozasa, Fukuyama Heisei University, Japan, Tsutomu Umamoto, Hiroshima Prefectural University, Japan, Hironobu Matsuoka, Yasuda Women’s University, Japan, Naoko Motooka, Hiroshima Prefectural University, Japan. | |
| ~5pm | Formal closing session | |
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