Please download the full conference programme in PDF format here
FURTHER UPDATES (SATURDAY WORKSKHOPS DETAILS BELOW)
| ESP in Asia 2nd Annual Conference: Programme | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 (Thursday 11th Nov 2010) | |||||||
| Time | Event | ||||||
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration | ||||||
| 9:00-9:15 | Opening Session and Welcome: Dr. Benedict Lin and Douglas Bell | ||||||
| 9:15 -10:15 | Plenary: Professor Gu Yueguo Multimodal Text Analysis of Classroom Discourse |
||||||
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee break | ||||||
| 10:45-11:45 | Plenary: Dr Kevin Harvey Corpus linguistics and?discourse analysis |
||||||
| 11:45-12:45 | Plenary: Professor Fang Yan A Genre-Based Approach to Teaching English Writing |
||||||
| 12:45 -1:45 | Lunch | ||||||
| Room | TB418 | TB419 | SSB109 | SSB113 | SSB312 | TBA | |
| 1:45-2:15 | BAO: Spoken Discourse Genre Analysis for Interpreter Education in the Chinese Context | ZHENG: 高职大学英语口语教学引入ESP的探索与实践 | IRANMERH, ERFANI, DAVARI: Iranian ESP Textbooks | TAM: Application of International Standards in Aviation English Assessment in China | AI: MALL in a General Education Class in English | JIANG, ZHANG: The Analysis on Grammatical Features of English Film Titles | |
| 2:20-2:50 | CAO, WANG, HUANG: Genre Systems of Publicity Discourse in Contemporary China | YA: 浙江科技学院EAP课程的教学研究与实践 | LI, GAO: ESP Course of Software Outsourcing English Oriented at Demand from Company | PUGSLEY, TIETJE: Engineering English Success | GAO, ZHANG: Agency and Metacognition: Two Worlds Apart? | SHAMMARI: EAP Learners’ Attitudes toward Extra-Curricular Internet Use in Saudi Arabia | |
| 2:55-3:25 | CROMPTON: Hedging in Arabia | CAI, LIAO: 学术英语还是专业英语 | CAI, MO: Constructivist Views on Compilation of Business English Course-books | SHEN: Pilot Study on Teaching of English for Sci-Tech purpose | IRWIN: A Systemic Functional Grammar Approach to Prescriptivism | LI: How to Motivate Students of English for Business Class | |
| 3:25-3:55 | Coffee break | ||||||
| 3:55-4:25 | HONG: Corpus Linguistics (CL) & Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) in a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) | PENG: Generic competence of first-year college EFL learners in their PowerPoint-assisted English presentation | O'GRADY: Options for collectivizing written feedback on student paragraphs using email, WORD and smartboards | LIU, LIU: Turn-Taking Modes and Its Application in Business English Conversation | YANG: A Survey of the Use of Communicative Language Teaching in ESP Classes | KNIGHT: Strategies for Developing English as the Medium of Instruction in University Contexts | |
| 4:30-5:00 | WANG: A Comparative Study of Epistemic Modality | WOODWARD: The Use of Foreign Language Teaching Techniques in the Computer Science Laboratory to Support Oral Presentation | DU: Teacher Feedback in EAP Writing Classrooms | McKENNY, HILTON: Text Mining and Concordancing to Assist International Business Studies | CHEN: A Study of Hotel English Reform from the perspective of Learning Needs Theory | LI: From learning English to learning in English | |
| 5:05-5:35 | PANG, YE: A Comparative Analysis of Genre Theories | YANG: Assessment for Learning in a Chinese University Context | WILLCOCKS: Promoting autonomy through writing conferences | LIN: Towards a Framework for Analyzing Choices in Business Writing | XIN: Effect of Problem-based Learning on Management of ESP Program Among Non-English Doctoral Candidates | ||
| 6:00 | Conference Dinner | ||||||
Day 2 (Friday 12th Nov 2010) |
|||||||
| Time | Event | ||||||
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Registration | ||||||
| Room | TB109 | TB227 | TB418 | TB419 | SSB109 | SSB113 | |
| 9:00-9:30 |
|
HUME: The development of an English for Specific Purposes / Content Language Integrated Learning course | JIANG, JIN: On Fuzziness of Legislative Language | SIMIN, RASEKH, JAFARZADEH: Adapting ESP Material According to the Needs, Interests and Proficiency Levels of Learners | LITTLEWOOD: Participation-based Pedagogy | HUANG: Effective Ways of Developing ESP Teachers at the Chinese Tertiary Level | |
| 9:35-10:05 | HU: A tentative investigation of lexical bundles in logistic textbook corpus | KUNSCHAK, HUME: Content, task and communication : The keys to successful ESP for Art & Design | CHENG, CHENG: A Functional Understanding of Legal Proof in English for Legal Purposes | WANG: Dilemma and Reflections on ESP Materials Development for English Majors in China | FREESTONE: English in global university education: Issues of hegemony in the Chinese context | YANG: A Narrative of an Intercultural Encounter for Academic Purposes | |
| 10:10-10:40 | QIN: Genre Analysis of Abstracts in Applied Linguistics | HAN, LIU: A Genre Analysis of English Newspaper Sports Hard News Report in China Daily | HIGGINS: Promoting Learning Groups in EAP Lecture Preparation Classes | ARTHURS: Language Ecology and Language Policy at UNNC | |||
| 10:40 - 11:05 | Coffee Break | ||||||
| Room | TB109 | TB227 | TB418 | TB419 | SSB109 | ||
| 11:05-11:35 | SU: The Effects of L1 on L2 in EFL Classrooms in China | LEVRAI: Developing Effective Materials for EAP | LEE: Tracing the development of Continuing Support: An Evolving Paradigm | SMITH: Justifying and Focusing Research through the Literature Review | SILBURN: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Evolving a Large-Scale EAP Syllabus for Reading and Writing | ||
| 11:40-12:10 | HUANG, TAO: Acquisition of Causative Devices among Chinese College Students | MUKHERJEE: Religious Affiliation and Language Shift | HEI: The Writing Center-Based Genre Approach to Undergraduate Academic Writing in the Chinese University | ZHONG: An Exploratory Study of Argumentative Strategies Used in Doctoral Dissertation Literature Review Section | ZOHOORIAN ET AL: A Critical Review on the Efficacy of Authentic Materials for ESP Courses | ||
| 12:15-12:45 | MOHAMMADI: The Impact of Cloze-test on Vocabulary Retention Of Iranian ESP Learners | DAI: Raising Learners’ Awareness of Their Own Culture in ELT | LIU: Project-Based ESP Program: Proficiency Gained with the Completion of Series of Tasks | REN: The Processing of Complex English Sentences by Chinese Learners of English | ROACH: Orienting students into their disciplines in the matter of critical thinking | ||
| 12:45-1:45 | Lunch | ||||||
| 1:45-2:45 | Plenary: Professor Winnie Cheng | ||||||
| 2:45-3:45 | Plenary: Professor Ken Hyland | ||||||
| 3:45-4:15 | Coffee Break | ||||||
| 4:15-5:00 | Round Table Session: Where should ESP in Asia be focused? | ||||||
| 5:00-5:30 | Closing Ceremonies | ||||||
Day 3 (Saturday 13th Nov 2010): Workshops
| Time: | TB418 | TB419 | SSB109 | SSB113 | TB227 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to workshop day | |||||
| 9-10:30am | Bill Littlewood | Winnie Cheng | Terry Greatrex | Handan Bao | Benedict Lin |
| 10:30-10:45am | Coffee Break | ||||
| 10:45-12:15pm | Bill Littlewood | Winnie Cheng | Douglas Bell | Handan Bao | Derek Irwin |
| 12:15-1:15pm | Lunch | ||||
| 1:15-2:45pm | Fiona Hyland | Peter Waters and Joy Gannaway | Douglas Bell | Tim Wallis | Ben Lin and Derek Irwin |
| 2:45-3:00pm | Coffee Break | ||||
| 3-4:30pm | Kevin Harvey | Peter Levrai | Gina Roach and Jiajia Xu | Richard Silburn | Eliot Wright |
| Bao | Memory or Analysis? In What Way Text Analysis Boosts Interpreter Performance |
|---|---|
| Bell | Teaching Oral Presentations in Academic Contexts |
| Cheng | Analysing company brochures: Using Wmatrix and ConcGram in genre analysis |
| Greatrex | Producing English Sounds in the Classroom: Tips and Tools for Teaching Spoken English |
| Harvey | Providing quality feedback |
| Heasley | Analyzing & Understanding Workplace Language |
| Hyland | Providing quality feedback |
| Irwin | Teaching Prescriptive Rules through a Functional Approach |
| Levrai | Developing Criteria for the Evaluation of EAP Materials |
| Lin | Exploring How Texts Work: Lesson Cycles & Activities for ESP/EAP teaching |
| Lin and Irwin | Helping Students Re-write Their Way to a PhD |
| Littlewood | Techniques for Structuring Classroom Interaction |
| Roach and Xu | Empowering students in the skill of asking questions: a suggested classroom procedure |
| Silburn | Developing coherence and cohesion in writing |
| Wallis | Developing Classroom Vocabulary: core lexis in EAP |
| Waters and Gannaway | The use of authentic materials in teaching and testing |
| Wright | Actively Involving Students in Note-taking through the Cornell System |
