Arabic-L:LING:AUC OXF Conference program
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Date: 17 Mar 2006
From:cairolinguists at aarcegypt.org
Subject:AUC OXF Conference program
[moderator's note: This message arrived a bit garbled with
computerese nonsense, so I'm not sure if it is complete or not. If
someone from the cairo linguists group can send a copy directly to me
at dil at byu.edu, I'll repost it. dil]
AUC OXF Conference on
Languages and Linguistics
=20
Friday and Saturday
March 24-25, 2006
JC Auditorium Blue Room SS03
=20
DETAILS
Opening and Keynote Speaker: JC Auditorium
Friday, March 24
9:00-10:30
=93If You Build It They Will Come=94
=20
Panel 1: JC Auditorium
Friday March 24
11:00-1:00 Teaching Writing
Chair: Dr. Sabiha Aydelott, Qatar Foundation
11:00-11:30 On the Interference of Rhetorical Patterns in L2
Writing: =
The Case of Arab Learners of English=20
Sondes Hamdi, Laval University , Quebec, Canada
11:30-12:00 Students' Writing in EFL: Towards a Teaching Methodology
Haifa Abdullah al-Buainain, Department of Foreign Languages,
University =
of Qatar
12:00-12:30 Effects of Prior Instruction on Student Writing in English
Renu Gupta, Center for Language Research, University of Aizu, Japan
12:30-1:00 The Cultural Component of FLT: An Exemplification
Diana Yankova, New Bulgarian University
=20
Panel 2: Blue Room
Friday March 24
11:00-1:00 Discourse & Rhetoric
Chair: Paul Stevens, TEFL, English Language Institute, AUC=20
11:00-11:30 Power of Discourse & Discourses of Power=20
Laila El Serty, Faculty of Languages, MSA & CACE, AUC; Nael Shama, =
University of St. Andrews, UK; Tasneem El Sharkawi, Department of =
English, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University
11:30-12:00 Globalization, Interdisciplinarity and the Notion of =
'Academic Discourse Community'
Irena Vassileva, Technical University in Berlin, Germany
12:00-12:30 Multilinguals and their Multiple Identities: =
Professionalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism
Konrad Gunesch, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic =
University, Hong Kong=20
12:30-1:00 Systemic Functional Linguistics and Contemporary Islamic =
Rhetoric in Egypt
Jacob H?igilt, University of Oslo, Norway =20
=20
Panel 3: SS03
Friday March 24
11:00-1:00 Syntax =20
Chair: Nahwat Al-Arousy, Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts, Helwan =
University
=20
11:00-11:30 The Unergative-Unaccusative Dichotomy as a Construct of =
Modern Grammar Theory
Sven Strobel, Graduate School for Linguistics, University of Stuttgart
11:30-12:00 Towards a characterization of Sibawayhi's approach from =
the viewpoint of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science
Hassina Aliane Aouidad, Research Center on Scientific and Technical =
Information, Algeria
12:00-12:30 Predicate Actants Valency-controlled by Arabic Verbs
Dina El Kassas, Paris VII University, France
12:30-1:00 Ellipsis, Movement, and Cyclicity
Masanori Nakamura, Senshu University, Japan
=20
Panel 4: JC Auditorium
Friday March 24
2:30-4:30 Syntax, Semantics & Culture
Chair: Amany el-Shazly, Faculty of Arts, Helwan
University =
=20
=20
2:30-3:00 When "no" does not signify a rejection: An Investigation
of =
Cross-Cultural Miscommunication
Jane Hsiu-chen Chang, The National Taipei College of Business, Taiwan
3:00-3:30 The Translation of Advertisements Based on a =
Register-Approach
Yasmine Fakhry, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University
3:30-4:00 Word Order and Specificity: Syntax and Semantics Interface
Ali Alizadeh, Faculty of Arts, University of Birjand, Iran
4:00-4:30 The Minimalist Syntax of Wh- and Multiple Wh- Raising in =
Standard Arabic, English, and the Slavic Languages and LF-Representation
Abdul Hafeed Ali Fakih, Department of English, University of Ibb,
Yemen=20
=20
Panel 5: SS03
Friday March 24
2:30-4:30 EFL & AFL
Chair: Salwa Mohammed Farag, Faculty of Arts, Helwan
University =
=20
=20
2:30-3:00 The Negative Operator as a Discourse Marker in Egyptian =
Arabic
Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan University
3:00-3:30 Arabic in Integrated Schools in Israel=20
Muhammad Amara, Bar-Ilan University, Political Science and English, =
Israel
3:30-4:00 Challenges and Strategies of Teaching ESP in a Tunisian =
University
Siri Lamoureaux and Mouna Rezig, University 7th of November, Carthage =
(ISLAIN)
4:00-4:30 Inter-language Rhetoric=20
Abdullah Hamad, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine =20
=20
Panel 6: JC Auditorium
Saturday March 25
10:30 -12:30 Phonetics & Phonology
Chair: Amira Agameya, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University
=20
10:30-11:00 Testing and Evaluation of Arabic Pronunciation
Performance=20
Daniel Newman, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of =
Durham
11:00-11:30 The Acquisition of Voicing in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic
Khalid Rifaat and Amal Kandeel, Faculty of Arts, University of =
Alexandria
11:30-12:00 Effects of Speaking Rate on the Production of Single and =
Geminate Consonants in CEA
Hanaa Abdel Fattah Salem, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University
12:00-12:30 Acoustic Cues of the Perception of Word Juncture in Arabic
Mervat Mohamed Ahmed Fashal, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University
=20
Panel 7: Blue Room
10:30-12:30
Language Education Policy and Planning in Egypt
Essential Issues
Chair: Zeinab Ibrahim, Arabic Language Institute, AUC
=20
10:30-11:00 Language Education Policy and Planning in Egypt: Status =
Report
Russanne Hozayin, English Language Institute, AUC
11:00-11:30 The Status of MSA as an L1 Academic Language =20
Sarah Elnaggar, Open Learning Center, Cairo University=20
11:30-12:00 Documentation of Language Education Policies and the=20
Sustainability of Reform
Rania Becket, English Language Institute, AUC=20
12:00-12:30 Arabic, English, and the Language Identity of Egyptian =
Teenagers
Dina Hosni Abdel Rahman, Political Science Dept., AUC
=20
Panel 8: SS03
Saturday March 25
10 :30 -12:30 E F L
Chair: Prof. Dr. Heinrich P. Kelz, Director, Language Center,
University =
of Bonn, Germany
=20
10:30 =9611:00 Quantifying Vocabulary Knowledge Size of Second =
Language Learners of English=20
Ahmad Affendi Shabdin & Siti Jamilah Bidin, Universiti Utara Malaysia
11:00-11:30 The Effects of Discourse-based Grammar Approach on
Language =
Learning
Siti Jamilah Bidin & Ahmad Affendi Shabdin, Universiti Utara Malaysia
11:30-12:00 Classroom Time as a Factor in Instruction of English for =
Academic Purposes
Samira ElAtia and Robert Berman, The English Language Program, =
University of Alberta, Canada
12:00-12:30 The Effect of Implementing Discourse Perspective in EFL =
Listening Classes=20
Ali Sorayaie Azar, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh Branch
=20
Panel 9: JC Auditorium
Saturday March 25
2:00-4:00 Computational Linguistics
Chair: Mona Fouad Attiya, Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts, Helwan =
University
=20
2:00-2:30 Exploring/Discovering Genre Differences Automatically
David Kaufer, Carnegie Mellon
2:30-3:00 Doing without Syntax in the Focus: The Promise of a =
Semantically-Based Grammar for Automatic Analysis and Generation of =
Arabic
Sameh al-Ansary, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, Faculty of =
Arts, Alexandria University
3:00-3:30 Sense and Homograph Disambiguation in Arabic Using =
Coordination-Based Semantic Similarity
Khaled Elghamry, Ain Shams University, Faculty of Al-Alsun, Egypt
3:30-4:00 A Novel Arabic Stemmer Algorithm for Producing Root-Based =
Terms=20
Hayder Khalid Al-Ameed, UAE University
=20
Panel 10: Blue Room
Saturday March 25
2:00-4:00 =C7=E1=DA=D1=C8=ED=C9 =
=C7=E1=E3=DA=C7=CC=E3 =DE=D6=C7 =ED=C7 =DD=EC =C7=E1=E4=CD=E6 =E6=20
Issues in Arabic Grammar & Lexicography (in Arabic)
=20
Panel 11: SS03
Saturday March 25
2:00-4:00 Issues in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
Chair: Samia S. Montasser, Coordinator, Arabic Language, The United =
Nations
=20
2:00-2:30 The Semantics and Usages of Prepositions in Modern Standard =
Arabic: The Case of /min/ and /9an/
Sherifa Atalla, Arabic Language Unit, AUC
2:30-3:00 The Development in the Arabic Verb Forms and their Semantic =
Meanings in Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian =
Colloquial: Teaching Meanings of Verb Forms in the Classroom.
Azza Hassanein, Arabic Language Unit, AUC=20
3:00-3:30 Facing Challenges in the Writing Class Room
Raghda Essawi, Arabic Language Institute, AUC
3:30-4:00 New Material To Teach Educated Spoken Arabic
Hebatalla Salem, Arabic Language Unit, CASA, AUC
=20
Closing Session: JC Auditorium
Saturday March 25
4:30-6:30 Closing Session
Chair: Kirk Belnap, National Middle East Language Resource Center, =
Brigham Young University
=20
4:30-5:00 Lexical Variation in Three Western Australian Regions
Ellen Grote, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
5:00-5:30 Imala: a History
Jonathan Owens, University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of =
Language=20
5:30-6:00 Preliminary Results of Tagging Experiments for Arabic
Marc Van Mol, University of Leuven, Belgium
6:00-6:30 Is MSA a 'standard' language? Reflections on the status
and =
functions of modern Arabic in a comparative perspective
Gunvor Mejdell, University of Oslo, Norway
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