Keynote Speakers and Featured Speaker
We are happy to announce our ICELS 2018 Conference keynote speakers!
1. Emeritus Professor Roland Sussex
Roland (Roly) Sussex, OAM, is Professor Emeritus of Applied Language Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures, and Research Professor in the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation, at the University of Queensland, Australia. He was also Director the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia – Queensland.
Professor Sussex is a specialist in comparative linguistics, particularly of the European languages, with a special interest in language, communication, society and technology (he was a pioneer of Computer-Assisted Language Learning in Australia). His research has been supported by Australian Research Council grants and other major awards.
Professor Sussex has held full professorial appointments at The University of Melbourne and The University of Queensland, Australia. He is an Honorary Life Member of the Linguistic Society of Australia and the Alliance Française and is Patron of the Institute of Professional Editors. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2012 and was made Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Knight of the Order of Academic Palms) by the French Government in 2017.
Topic: COMMUNICATING ABOUT PAIN: ACUTE ISSUES FOR ENGLISH TEACHING AND LEARNING
2. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thanomporn Laohajaratsang
Thanomporn Laohajaratsang is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Technology, Faculty of Education, Chiang Mai University (CMU), Thailand. She currently serves as the Director of the Information Technology Service Center (ITSC) at CMU and is an international expert of the ICT in Education Unit, UNESCO Bangkok.
Dr. Thanomporn completed both her master’s and doctoral degrees in Technology Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992-1995. Before joining CMU, she was an Assistant Professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
For over 20 years, she has conducted projects and research activities related to the development of new media to support innovative pedagogies, the integration of ICT in educational system, and the design of future learning environments.
Topic: INNOVATIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACHES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
3. Dr. Mullika Sangsanit
Dr. Mallika Sangsanit is a lecturer at the Department of Management Technology, Suranaree University of Technology
Topic: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS
ICELS 2018 Conference Featured Speaker
Professor Robert Waring
Professor Rob Waring, Ph.D. is Professor at Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama, Japan. He is an acknowledged expert in Extensive Reading and second language vocabulary acquisition. He has published over 60 articles and has given hundreds of lectures, plenaries and featured speaker presentations in 28 countries. He has been Chair of several major international conferences. He is an Executive Board member of the Extensive Reading Foundation responsible for the promotion of Extensive Reading globally. He is also author and series editor of six series of graded readers by various publishers. He is the administrator and co-founder of the Extensive Reading website www.ER-Central.com and of www.word-learner.com.
Topic: THE MISSING PIECE OF THE PUZZLE
This presentation will present the ‘missing piece of the puzzle’ for language teachers and students. The talk starts by surveying what we know about language learning and teaching and reviews the linguistic parameters under which this learning must take place. There will then be a review of the current state of EFL to show how we, as an industry, present language to students in a linear manner based on a ‘teaching causes learning model’ of language learning. Recent research into lexical analysis and vocabulary learning will highlight the relatively little recycling of vocabulary, the lack of attention to collocation, colligation and lexical phrases in general there is in typical EFL courses which vastly underestimate the amount of language students need to meet for acquisition to take place. It will also highlight the conditions under which vocabulary can be acquired. The final section of the talk will show how teachers, students and curriculum designers can provide the missing massive amounts of exposure students need to consolidate their language knowledge to enable long term acquisition to take place.
