LINGUIST List 17.521
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Confs: English/General Ling/Hong Kong, China
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1. Scarlet
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Language Issues in English-medium Universities Across Asia
Message 1: Language Issues in English-medium Universities Across Asia
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Date: 15-Feb-2006
From: Scarlet Poon <scarletwshku.hk>
Subject: Language Issues in English-medium Universities Across Asia
Language Issues in English-medium Universities Across Asia
Date: 08-Jun-2006 - 09-Jun-2006
Location: Hong Kong, China
Contact: Scarlet Poon
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.hku.hk/clear/conference.html
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English
Meeting Description:
The Symposium will be held at the University of Hong Kong. Please visit the Symposium website for registration.
The symposium ''Language issues in English-medium universities across Asia'' gathers reports from selected universities on the use of English as a teaching medium'. It will address issues arising from the impact of English as a teaching medium throughout East, South-East and South Asian universities.
It is a forum for applied linguists, ELT professionals, tertiary teachers and researchers, and other concerned academics to discuss the current use of English as a dominant or additional language of academic discourse at university level.
Participants are invited from universities throughout South, Southeast, and East Asia, as well as universities in English-speaking countries with a high level of institutional partnership and involvement with Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Focus countries: Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, The Philipines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Japan, China, Thailand and Vietnam.
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Prof. Amy Tsui
The University of Hong Kong
Prof. David Nunan
The University of Hong Kong
Prof. James Tollefson
International Christian University
Prof. Joseph Lo Bianco
The University of Melbourne
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Prof. Saran Kaur Gill
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Dr. Agnes Lam
The University of Hong Kong
Prof. Wu Yi'an
Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
Prof. Lu Zhongshe
Tsinghua University, China
Dr. Allan Bernardo
De La Salle University, Manila
Dr. Anne Pakir
National University of Singapore
Contributions will be compiled into a book length study of language in university education, to be published by Hong Kong University Press in their book series Asian Englishes Today.
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