17.521, Confs: English/General Ling/Hong Kong, China

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-521. Thu Feb 16 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.521, Confs: English/General Ling/Hong Kong, China

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Date: 15-Feb-2006
From: Scarlet Poon < scarletws at hku.hk >
Subject: Language Issues in English-medium Universities Across Asia 

	
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:00:10
From: Scarlet Poon < scarletws at hku.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: scarletws at hku.hk 
Meeting URL: http://www.hku.hk/clear/conference.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

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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