LAEL PG Conference 2007

Plenary Speakers' Titles and Abstracts

Presenters' Titles and Abstracts

Alexandra Polyzou
Lancaster University
a.polyzou[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
Genre-Based Data Selection and Classification for Critical Discourse Analysis

Anne Nebel
Lancaster University
a.nebel[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
Investigating Oral Examiner Perception and Selection of Speaking Prompts

Caroline McGlynn
University of East London
C.Mcglynn[AT]uel.ac.uk
Language Use in Classroom Contexts: a Case Study from The Gambia

Dawn Perkins
Lancaster University
d.perkins[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
Investigating Expertise in Textbook Writing: Insights from a Case Study of an Experienced Materials Writer at Work

Eleanor Lamb
Lancaster University
e.lamb[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
Can Refugee Organisations Challenge Racism in British Society?

Filipa Ribeiro
Lancaster University
fperdig[AT]ualg.pt
‘He was chosen for not rocking the boat’. The Construction of National Identity in Newspaper Opinion Articles: The Inside and Outside Perspectives

Frank van Splunder
Lancaster University
f.vansplunder[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
Who’s Afraid of English? The Flemish Virgin and the Big Bad Wolf

Geraldine Ludbrook
University of Venice, Italy
ludbrook[AT]unive.it
CLIL: A New Bilingualism?

Guozhi Cai
The Open University
S.Cai[AT]open.ac.uk
Developing Creative or Playful Elements in English Language Teaching in Chinese Universities

Hui Li
University of Wales Swansea
h.li.203146[AT]swansea.ac.uk
How Do Raters Assess Vocabulary in Story-Telling Tasks? Insights from Verbal Protocol Analysis

J W Unger
Lancaster University
j.unger[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
Scots: Living Language or Cultural Relic?

Justin Charlebois
Lancaster University
justinc[AT]asu.aasa.ac.jp
The Shifting Identities of Modern Japanese Women and Language

Kamonnat Tamrackitkun
University of Salford
tkamonnat[AT]hotmail.com
Extensive Reading: An Empirical Study of Its Effects on EFL Thai Students’ Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, and Attitudes

Kamran Ilyas
Government Postgraduate College Attock, Pakistan
mirza.kamran.ilyas[AT]gmail.com
Interlingual Transfer of Idioms by Pakistani Learners of English

Kate Torkington
Lancaster University
k.torkington[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
Making a Place in the Sun: Investigating Place-Making and Place-Identity in the Talk of ‘Lifestyle’ Migrants in the Algarve

Khoa Nguyen Viet
University of Sussex
K.Nguyen-Viet[AT]sussex.ac.uk
Towards the Problem of Meaning of Vietnamese Main Names

Majid KhosraviNik
Lancaster University
m.khosravinik[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
Actor, Action, Argumentation: Towards an Amalgamation of CDA Methodological Categories in Representations of Social Actors

Maria Davou
Lancaster University
m.davou[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
Investigating Markers of Oral Proficiency

Michael Chiou
University of Reading
llr03mc[AT]reading.ac.uk
Two Subtypes of M-implicatures: A study with Special Reference to Modern Greek

Michael Pace-Sigge
University of Liverpool
scouse[AT]liverpool.ac.uk
Traces of Lexical Priming in English and German Uses of Be and Have Forms in Biographies

Mike Tiittanen
Lancaster University
p.tiittanen[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
The Oral Production of English Past Tense Morphology by Mandarin and Tamil Learners

Muhammad Asif Raza
Government Postgraduate College Attock, Pakistan
masifrazabhatti[AT]hotmail.com
Collocational Competence and Cloze Test Performance: A Study of Pakistani EFL Learners

Natasha Ghal-eh
Azad University of Karaj, Iran
natasha.qale[AT]gmail.com
An Integrative Model of Language Task-based Assessment: The Efficacy of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Patteera Thienpermpool
Silpakorn University, Nakhonpathom, Thailand
thienpermpool[AT]hotmail.com
*Poster Presentation*
The Development of Vocabulary-Based Readability Index for Text Selection

Rachele Lawton
Lancaster University
r.lawton[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
CDA, Language Policy, and Language Ideology in the United States: The American “English Only” Movement

Raksangob Wijitsopon
Lancaster University
r.wijitsopon[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
A Corpus-Based Study of Direct Speech in Jane Austen’s Emma

Reyhan Funda Isbuga-Erel
University of East Anglia
R.Erel[AT]uea.ac.uk
A Critical Discourse Approach to Translated Literature

Ya-Chin Chuang
University of York
yc529[AT]york.ac.uk
*Poster Presentation*
What and How are the Chinese Metaphors Used in Music Classrooms?

Yasuko Yamada
Lancaster University
y.yamada1[AT]lancaster.ac.uk
‘Seeing is Believing and Then…’ The Discursive Construction of Ulster Scots Language Planning

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