Conference programme (draft)


Day 1: Monday 19th September 2011


8.45 Registration

9.20 Welcome

9.30 Keynote 1: Jirapa Vitayapirak (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand)

10.30 Session 1

P1. Jun Iwata, Yuko Tamaki & John Clayton (Japan): Integrating Moodle-Based Activities into Teaching English for Medicine: Instructional Design and Evaluation

11.00 Coffee

11.20 Session 1 (cont.)

P2. Angkana Tongpoon-Patanasorn (Thailand): Effects of Concordance-Based Methods on Different Facets of Vocabulary Knowledge in EFL Learners

P3. Mitra Jafari & Zohreh Seifoori (Iran): Improving pre-intermediate EFL learners’ vocabulary retention through Cooperative learning

12.20 Lunch

14.00 Session 2

P4. Maliha Khadidja Meziane & Hadjira Kara Terki (Algeria): Integrating ICT for the global understanding classroom

P5. Hung-hsuan Kao & Chiou-hui Chou (Taiwan): Researching into elementary students’ English learning in a synchronous online tutoring program

P6. Janet Lakareber, Dilip Patel & Shushma Patel (UK): CALL design for local knowledge preservation and transmittance

15.30 Coffee

15.45 Session 3

P7. Parinda Jantori (Thailand): Similar Meaning Quantifiers: Using Corpus-Based Information to Supplement Coursebooks

P8. Katsunori Kotani et al. (Japan): Statistical Analysis of a Learner Corpus Integrating Linguistic Output and Language Processing Data in Speaking, Listening, Writing, and Reading

16.45 End

17.00-18.30 : local sightseeing tour in Khon Kaen and Khon Kaen University


Day 2: Tuesday 20th September 2011

9.30 Keynote 2: Shin-ichiro Ishikawa (Kobe University, Japan)

10.30 Session 4

P9. George Weir & Seishin Miura (UK): Readability of English editorials in Japanese and Scottish Newspapers

P10. Urarat Parnrod (Thailand): The Challenge of Using the Passive in Research Writing

11.30 Coffee

11.50 Session 4 (cont.)

P11. Tomoko Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Onishi & Akiko Furukawa (Japan): Measuring the Effect of Daisy Multimedia on Low-Proficiency EFL Learners

P12. Yuka Ishikawa (Japan): Bridging the Gap between General English and Academic English

12.50 Lunch

14.00 Session 5

P13. Serene S.H. Ng (Singapore): A Corpus-Based Study of the Malay Loanwords in Singapore Chinese

P14. Biook Behnam & Mitra Jafari (Iran): The Impact of Text Generation Using Meta-discourse Markers on Pre-intermediate Learners’ Writing Proficiency

15.00 Coffee

15.20 Panel Session

16.00 Formal Close


Day 3: Wednesday 21st September 2011

Half-day tour (optional)