The 3rd Asia TEFL International Conference Schedule

November 3rd (Thursday)

13:00 ~ 20:00 Registration (Lobby of China Resources Hotel)
16:30 ~ 18:30 Executive Council Meeting (Meeting Room at HEP)
19:00 ~ 21:00

Dinner for Executive Council Members

 

November 4th (Friday)

  8:00 ~  8:45 Registration (Lobby of China Resources Hotel)
  8:45 ~  9:45 Opening Ceremony (Convention Hall)
Opening/Welcoming Addresses
1. Vice-Minister of Education, China
2. Prof. Hyo Woong Lee, President of Asia TEFL
3. Prof. Liu Zhipeng, President of HEP
4. Prof. Yang Zhizhong, Representative of Asia TEFL in China
5. Prof. Liu Yuan, Executive Conference Chair
  9:45 ~ 10:15

Special Invited Speech (Convention Hall)
China¡¯s English Teaching Reform: Trends and Issues
Hu Zhuanglin, China Research & Development Center for Foreign Languages Teaching & Learning

 
10:15 ~ 10:30

Break

 
10:30 ~ 11:20

Keynote Speech (Convention Hall)
Reinventing Language Teaching
David Nunan, University of Hong Kong, China
(Moderator: Yang Zhizhong, Nanjing University)

 
11:20 ~ 12:10

Plenary Speech (Convention Hall)
From Communicative Competence to Intercultural Literacy
Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley, USA
(Moderator: Chen Jianping, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)

 
12:10 ~ 13:10

Lunch and Book Exhibition

 
13:10 ~ 13:35

Concurrent Sessions (19 rooms)

 
13:45 ~ 14:10

Concurrent Sessions (19 rooms)

 
14:20 ~ 14:45

Concurrent Sessions (20rooms)

 
14:45 ~ 15:05

Break

 
15:05 ~ 15:45

Featured Sessions (5 rooms)

 
15:55 ~ 16:20

Concurrent Sessions (20rooms)

 
16:30 ~ 16:55

Concurrent Sessions (20 rooms)

 
17:05 ~ 17:30

Concurrent Sessions (20 rooms)

 
17:40 ~ 18:05

Concurrent Sessions (20 rooms)

 
18:15 ~ 18:40

Concurrent Sessions (18 rooms)

 
Workshop or Colloquium (Ballroom B)  
Workshop or Colloquium (19F Meeting Room)  
19:00 ~ 20:00

Welcoming Reception (Ball Room)

 
20:15 ~ 21:30

Chinese Folk Performance (Convention Hall)

 

November 5th (Saturday)

  8:30 ~ 8:55 Concurrent Sessions (20 rooms)
  9:05 ~ 9:30 Concurrent Sessions (20 rooms)
  9:40 ~ 10:30

Plenary Speech (Convention Hall)
From Corpus to Coursebook
Michael McCarthy, University of Nottingham, UK
(Moderator: Wen Qiufang, Beijing Foreign Studies University)

 
10:30 ~ 10:45

Break

 
10:45 ~ 11:10

Concurrent Sessions (19 rooms)

 
11:20 ~ 11:45

Concurrent Sessions (19 rooms)

 
11:55 ~ 12:20

Concurrent Sessions (20 rooms)

 
12:20 ~ 13:20 Lunch and Book Exhibition  
13:20 ~ 13:45 Concurrent Sessions (20 rooms)  
13:55 ~ 14:20 Concurrent Sessions (20 rooms)  
14:30 ~ 15:20 Plenary Speech (Convention Hall)
The Architecture of Teacher Knowledge
Donald Freeman, School for International Training
(Moderator: Jia Guodong, Ren Min University)

 
15:20 ~ 15:35 Break  
15:35 ~ 16:15 Featured Sessions (5 rooms)  
16:25 ~ 16:50 Concurrent Sessions (17 rooms)  
17:00 ~ 17:25 Concurrent Sessions (19 rooms)  
17:35 ~ 18:00 Concurrent Sessions (19 rooms)  
Workshop or Colloquium (Ballroom B)  
Workshop or Colloquium (20F Meeting Room)  
Workshop or Colloquium (Function 1)  
Workshop or Colloquium (Ballroom A)  
Workshop or Colloquium (VIP 15)  
18:10 ~ 18:35

General Meeting of Asia TEFL (Function 6)

 
18:35 ~ 20:00

Dinner

 

November 6th (Sunday)

  8:30 ~ 8:55 Concurrent Sessions (19 rooms)
  9:05 ~ 9:30 Concurrent Sessions (19rooms)
  9:40 ~ 10:30 Plenary Speech
Chinese Learner English Corpus and EFL in China
Yang Huizhong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
(Moderator: Jin Yan, Shang Hai Jiaotong University)

 
10:30 ~ 10:45 Break  
10:45 ~ 11:15 Special Invited Speech (Convention Hall)
Towards a Common Asian Framework of Reference for English Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
(Moderator: Shi Jian, Si Chuan University)

 
11:15 ~ 12:05 Plenary Speech
Teaching EFL Reading: A Critical Look
Richard Day, University of Hawaii, USA
(Moderator: He Lianzhen, Zhe Jiang University)

 
12:05 ~ 13:05 Lunch and Book Exhibition  
13:05 ~ 13:30 Concurrent Sessions (19 rooms)  
13:40 ~ 14:05 Concurrent Sessions (18 rooms)  
14:15 ~ 14:40 Concurrent Sessions (17 rooms)  
14:40 ~ 14:55 Break  
14:55 ~ 15:45 Plenary Speech £¨Ballroom£©
Always Look on the Bright Side---Being a Nonnative Teacher
Peter Medgyes, Ambassador of Republic of Hungary to Syria
(Moderator: Wang Haixiao, Nanjing University)

 
Workshop or Colloquium (Ballroom B)  
Workshop or Colloquium (Ballroom A)  
16:00 ~ 17:00

Closing Ceremony (Ballroom)

 

November 7th (Monday)

Culture Tour: Route 1 --- The Forbidden City and the Summer Palace
Route 2 --- The Great Wall and the Ming Tomb
     
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