Saturday May 23, 2009
Registration & Opening Ceremony (Room #7301)

9:00-9:55
8303: ER

10:00-10:45

11:00-11:45

Pin-Fen Chen andPi-Ching Chen
Facilitating young
learners’ vocabularyacquisition and reading
comprehension throughanimated picture bookreading and cooperative
story mappingMark Brierley
Assessing extensive
reading (Workshop)

8304: TEVAL

8308 PRAG

8204: SA

8205: IRO-IRO

8307 : GALE & LLL

8302 : CALL & OLE

Aram Reza SadeghiStudent generated
tests (in testing andevaluation)

Sylvan Payne
Teaching critical thinking
skills with political ads

Brenda Bushell
Gauging the impact of a
non-traditional study abroadprogramPeter Teo
Expanding textual
repertoires: Suspensebuilding in narrative
writing in a Singapore
classroom

GALE Folake Abass(90 minute pres)
The beauty myth:
Women’s fight withadvertising

CALL Frank L. Tuzi
and John Paul Loucky(90 minute pres)Using CALL to provide
infinite possibilities for
productive language use

Elaine C. Gilmour
Can do authentic
speaking tests(Workshop)

Cynthia Lee
Interlanguage pragmatic
production ability of young
Cantonese English learners

Shinobu Anzai, Philllip
Dobberfuhl et al.
The effectiveness ofstudy-abroad programs on
cultural learning: A case ofJapanese summer
study-abroad programs

Rory Rosszell
Debating: The
learner’s perspective

8206: AM

LexxicaJonah Glick andCharles Browne
The Word
Engine:Interactive tools
for mastering theright words

12:00-13:00

Lunch and Poster Sessions (*Poster Sessions: Room #8305 until 14:00)

13:00-13:45

Nozomu Sonda
An integrative college
reading course: An
action research

14:00-15:00

Plenary speech by JD Brown The Perils of Language Testing and Curriculum Development: Mistakes Were Made, Lessons Learned (Room #7301)

15:15-16:00

Greg Rouault
Critical readingreflections with graphicorganizers

Tim Newfields
An analysis of'can-do' statements:
What can they do?

Rieko Matsuoka
and Mari Uchimura
Discourse analysis ofencouragement inhealthcare comics

Peter Wannerand Yuko Sato
Study abroad throughinternational leadershipseminars – AYF2008

Susan Duggan andChristine
Winskowski
Expandingpossibilities for course
evaluations

LLL John
Campbell-Larsen
Student autonomy incommunication classes.

CALL Ben Lehtinen
Chatbots: A practicalguide for construction
and use in a language
class

STEP BULATS
Mark KnightAnother“inconvenienttruth”: Climatechange inlanguage testing

16:15-17:00

David Williams
The limits of ER in
raising TOEFL testscoresMichihiro Hirai
Correlation between
STEP BULATS
speaking andTOEIC® scores

Danny Chung-hongLeung
L1-L2 idioms alike ordifferent? A
cognitive-linguistic
pedagogical treatment ofidioms for L2 learners ofEnglish

Elaine C. Gilmour
Study abroad needs an
ethnographic paradigm

Beverley Horne
Considering students’
perceptions on thecommunication
strategies most usefulfor them in classroom
discussions

OLE Fuk Chuen Ho
Reading errors ofreading disabledchildren in Chinese

The EnglishCompany
Gary Ireland,Max
Woollerton, andMick short
Introducing The
English Course

17:15-18:00

Joshua Sargent
Infinite adaptations withnewspaper articles

Colin Rundle andColin Skeates
Are Japanese really
the world’s worst
English speakers?

MegumiKawate-Mierzejewska
Potential sources ofsocio-pragmatic failure:
The case of expletives

Julia Christmas Nishibata
et al.
Perspectives and reflections
on an intensive preparation
program for study abroad

Chris Stillwell andTim Murphey
Pathways tocollaborative
school-based teacher
communities

LLL Geoff SinhaInvestigating thelanguage attitudes ofolder Japanese learners
towards the English
language as a whole andtowards NorthAmerican, Singaporean,and Japanese English
varieties
GALE Michi Saki
Exploring “Genderlects”
in film

CALL Kevin Ryan
The best mix: Blending
courseware and classes

Perceptia Press
Brian Cullen
Creative textbook
destruction forstudents of alllevelsJames McCrostie
TOEIC: The test thatdescended fromheaven*Poster sessions: 12:00 to 14:00 (Room #8305)

Mike McDonald
Situating ESP writing in abroader context:
Combining move analysis
and clause relations toteach abstract-writing toundergraduate computerscience students

Mark Jones and Russell
Hubert
University study abroad
programs: Key educational
and administrative issues

Akbar Azizifar
The relationships
between sentence
structure awarenessand Iranian EFL
university students
ability in reading
comprehension**Banquet sponsored by STEP BULATS: 18:20 to 19:50

GALE Rachel WinterMaria diets and Mr.
Schmitt does overtime:
Gender bias in textbooks
for learners of Japanese

CALL Charles Browne
Vocabulary assessment& study via IRT &online technology

STEP EIKEN
Jamie Dunlea
Maximizing test
usefulness: Aframework foraddressing theneeds of EIKEN
test takers

Sunday May 24, 2009
8:30-8:55

Registration
8303: ER & MW

8304: TEVAL

8308 PRAG

8204: SA_______________________________________________________________________________

8205: IRO-IRO

9:00-9:45

MW Featured Speaker (Room #7301)
Steve King
Publishing past, present, and future

10:00-10:45

Paul Collett
Using out-of-classreading to extend
learning

11:00-12:00

Plenary speech by Deryn Verity The Online Dialogue: Beyond Borders, Beyond Expectations (Room #7301)

12:00-13:00

Lunch and Poster Sessions (*Poster Sessions: Room #8305 until 14:00)

13:00-13:45

14:00-14:45

15:00-15:45

16:00-16:45

8307 : LLL & GALE

PRAG Colloquium(Starts at 9:30)
Sayoko Yamashita,
MegumiKawate-Mierzejewska,
Nick Jungheim, andGordon Liversidge
Investigating pragmatic
problems and developing
teaching materials forstudents going overseas

Mehran Sabet:
Pathway to success:
Recipe for a successful life
overseas

Pi-Ching Chen andLin-Yu Chen
A case study of English
capability needs forbanking staff

LLL John SpiriReconceptualizing
homework as
independent learning

OLE Mercedes CastroYague
Songs: A didactic
resource for teaching
the Spanish language

PearsonLongman
Steve KingMobile learning
applications forthe iPhone/ iPod /iPod / NintendoDS

OLE María Gómez
and Natalia Barrallo
La explotación de la
imagen publicitaria en
el aula de lenguas
extranjeras: Cómo
trabajar la expresión
oral a través de la
imagen publicitaria
CALL Yun-yin Huang
New computer literacy
for EFL teachers: A casestudy of higher
education in Taiwan

Abax
HughGraham-MarrA vocabulary
notebook: Thewhys and hows

Jean Ware andMiyuki Yonezawa
Using extensive
listening andshadowing in classRoderick Lange
Aligning assessmentwith course goals:
Incorporating
motivational
messages intoperformance
feedback

Andrew Atkins
Power distribution in a
television interview

Teresa Cox
Pre-departure training:
Classroom activities (1)Damian J. Rivers
Task motivation throughutilizing local cultural
attributes

LLL Ben Shearon
Helping learners
become independent: A
toolbox of self-study
resources and methods

MW Eric M. Skier
Materials for ESP:
More than just words
are required

Christopher Weaver
More informed
placement decisions?

Andrew Boon
Desperately seeking
reassurance: Analyzing
requestive hint
miscommunication in an
email exchange

Steve Christie
Media literacy as CBIfor critical thinking
skills in university
courses

GALE /ER
Atsuko Takase
Gender differences inextensive reading

MW Myles Grogan
Should we or shouldn't
we give electronic
assignments?

Pan-SIG 2010
MeetingAika Miura
Coherence in L1 and L2
writings

Todd Cooper, et al.
Establishing, developing,and improving overseas
study programs: Casestudy – National Collegeof Maritime Technology
Gendai GP program
Vera Rute Silva de Jesus
MarquesIntercultural challenges ofstudying abroad

Miori Shimada
Expanding opportunities
through English drama

GALE Todd Squires
Motivations andmasculinities

Stephen M. Ryan
Expanding possibilities for
cultural experience

Stuart Cunningham
Squandering limited
opportunities

JHSH Jake Arnold
Pushed production:
Ongoing performanceassessment in a highschool task-based oral
communication course

17:00-17:15*Poster sessions: 12:00 to 14:00 (Room #8305)
5/23 Jacob Schnickel: Lessons learned from coaching

8206: AMOLE Fumie Togano
Teaching a second
foreign language at highschool (for fun)Ian MunbyDevelopment of A
word association test(part 2)

Toru Tadaki et al.
An extensive reading
project at university &high school

8302 : OL E & CALLOLE Shouhui Zhao
Evaluating the pedagogicalinnovation of Chinese
language curriculum inSingapore primary schools

Closing Ceremony (ROOM #7301)

Peter Mizuki: How a course on Japanese culture promotes autonomy and greater intercultural understanding in a Japanese language and culture program
David Williams: Ryugaku: Japanese students’ motivations
5/24 Seher Kasikara: Is it a context or just a pretext?
Ted O'Neill: Faculty development in the English language program at J. F. Oberlin University: A program-based model
Nicholas Marshall: Acquiring communication for interactional novices

CALL Kristen Sullivan
and Paul Collett
Using technology topromote students’
independent study
OLE Eric Fortin
French language
acquisition in a curtailed
program and its
expansion beyond theclassroom

Momentum
Education
Kevin Mark
Bringing life toyour classroom: Asimple secret