Come to China with the WLP!

Proposed Presenters
World Language Process
Symposium at
AILA 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics
August 23-28, 2011
Beijing, China

The proposed architectural center piece of the UNKOMMON Foundation and the World Language Process at Bahjí du Canada.	The World Language Process program of the UNKOMMON Foundation is proposing to conduct a symposium at the AILA 2011 Conference being jointly hosted by The Chinese Language Association, Beijing Foreign Studies University and the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in Beijing, China, August 23-28, 2011. We would like to have participants from every country in the world including individuals from as many languages as we possibliy can.
2011 AILA Conference Host Contacts China	China English Language Education Association (CELEA) Contact: Wen Qiufang National Research Center for Foreign Language Education Beijing Foreign Studies University No. 2, Xisanhuan Beilu Beijing, 100089 China Phone: +86 10 88815012 Fax: +86 10 88810376 E-Mail: wenqiufang@bfsu.edu.cn and: Duan Changcheng Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press 3505, FLTRP Building, No.19, Xisanhuan Beilu Beijing, 100089 China Phone: +86 10 88819537 Fax: +86 10 88819400 E-Mail: duancc@fltrp.com Click here to return to Table of Contents
2011 WLP Symposium Proposer Canada A great-grandfather's 'bragging rights'. My four Chinese grandchildren. Son married Chinese widow and adopted her three children	Bruce Beach language@webpal.org Founder and Coordinator of the WLP Liaison and coordinator UN NGO Coalition for an International Auxiliary Language WLP Presenter at: 2004 Olympics Cultural Conference Humanistic Olympics Studies Center of Renmin University Beijing, China WLP Presenter at: The Cardiff 2005 Language and Global Communications Conference Wales, United Kingdom WLP Presenter at: WLP Symposium at AILA 2008 in Germany Appointed Chair three sessions at AILA 2008 Proposed 2011 Symposium: Selection / Implementation and Dissemination of a Universal Auxiliary Language Click here to return to Table of Contents
Chinese Presenters Contact for the proposed 2011 WLP Symposium China	Liu, Fengming Presentation at AILA 2008 on: Improving the coherence in non-English majors’speaking the role of listening and reading Paper built on the language learning in Chinese context by considering data collected on an experiment (from November, 2006 to January, 2008) which explored to what extend the input of listening and the input of reading can affect the coherence of the Non-English majors’ speaking. LIU, Fengming Associate Professor School of Foreign Languages Southwest University Beibei Chongqing 400715 Peoples Republic of China liufengm@swu.edu.cn Click here to return to Table of Contents
Proposed 2011 WLP Symposium General Chair Japan	Jonathan B. Britten jbritten@nakamura-u.ac.jp WLP International Director - Asia Nakamura University Fukuoka, Japan WLP Presenter: in previous years at numerous AILA affiliate JALT Conferences in Japan WLP Symposium Chair at AILA 2008 in Germany Proposed 2011 Presentation Title: Selecting a Universal Auxiliary Language: Click here to return to Table of Contents
Proposed Chair for WLP Language and Syntax Selection Group China	ZHANG Lian Phd.D Associate Professor School of English & International Studies Beijing Foreign Studies University 2 North Xisanhuan Rd. Haidian District Beijing 100089, China Tel: 86 10 8881 5855 zhanglian@bfsu.edu.cn Click here to return to Table of Contents
Proposed Chair for WLP Phoneme Selection Group U.S.A.	Dr. Steven Bett stbett@yahoo.com WLP International Director - North America Founder of the Phonology Forum SSS director and editor Proposed 2011 Presentation Title: Selection of the Phoenemes For a UAL. Click here to return to Table of Contents
Proposed Chair for WLP Pedagogical Method Group United Kingdom	Harris, Vee / Grenfell, Michael Presentation at AILA 2008: “Learning to learn” languages: The differential response of learners to strategy instruction? “Learningto learn” languages is increasingly important in Multi lingual Europe. Based on “Learner Strategy” research, this paper reports on a project in two multi cultural schools in England. Students learning French underwent a programme of strategy instructi0on in reading and listening. Both Qualitative and Quanti tative findings are presented to explore whether certain factors, such as gender, proficiency and bilingual status, are more influential than others in producing higher test scores. Professor Michael Grenfell School of Education Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ Tel: +44 (0) 23 8059 3472 Fax: +44 (0) 23 8059 3556 E-mail: m.grenfell@soton.ac.uk v.harris@gold.ac.uk Click here to return to Table of Contents
Proposed Chair for WLP Script Selection Group Bangladesh	Faquire, A.B.M. Razaul Karim Presentation at AILA 2008 Learner variety of modality in the emergent interlanguage of Japanese This study elucidated that learner variety of modality in the emergent interlanguage of Japanese constituted of stereotypic means, protosyntactic means, and paratactic structure for verifying the hypotheses by means of the corpora collected from their spontaneous speech of seven learners. The hypotheses were idiosyncratic characteristics of modal system in Japanese constraint the process of grammaticalization. U of Dhaka Bangladesh Dr. A.B.M. Razaul Karim Faquire (Masud) Associate Professor of Japanese Institute of Modern Languages Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh Phone 88-02-9661920-59, Ex. 8536 (off) 88-02-8120356 (Dobe) Cell 88-01715-113701 Fax 88-02-8615583 bangla1999@hotmail.com Click here to return to Table of Contents
Proposed Chair for WLP Miscellaneous Group Portugal	Abrantes, Ana Margarida Presentation at AILA 2008 Abrantes, Ana Margarida / Brandt, Per Aage Stemmatic syntax: A cognitive theory for language education In this paper we present the cognitive based theory of Stemmatic Syntax, which describes the structure of sentences on the basis of a finite set of canonical nodes. The purpose is to provide an account for syntactic structure which conforms to the experience of effective communication. We propose the use of this theory in language education as a means to enhance linguistic awareness and to promote learning success and communicative efficiency, both in first and foreign language acquisition. Case Western Reserve U - USA ana.margarida.abrantes@gmail.com peraage.brandt@case.edu ana.margarida.abranks@gmail.com Cleavland/Portugal Click here to return to Table of Contents
PROPOSED PRESENTERS
Isle of Man UK	Antony Alexander Email: aita@langx.org Long time linguistic theorist for the WLP WLP Presenter at: The Cardiff 2005 Language and Global Communications Conference Wales, United Kingdom WLP Presenter at: WLP Symposium at AILA 2008 in Germany Proposed 2011 Presentation Title: A UAL Basic Beginners subset of Phonemes and Vocabulary Click here to return to Table of Contents
Germany	Subject: Saaspel Adrian Alphohziel Administrator & Lecturer GymnassiumstraBe 31 74072 Heilbronn Germany Fon 0049-7131-6857 Fax 165323 Mobile 0049-170-3175080 mail@alphohziel.de www.alphorziel.com saaspel@blain.de www.saaspel.com Roy W. Blain Pfaffenstr.1 74078 Heilbronn Germany Tel. +49 7131 2821-64 Fax. +49 7131 485216 info@blain.de http://www.blain.de Click here to return to Table of Contents
Italy	Salvato, Giuliana Subjec at AILA 2008: Gesture strategies in the acquisition of Italian as a second language The question of how gestures participate in interactions across cultures is a very interesting one. Italian, for example, relies on a large number of gestures that are understood only within its community of speakers. Research in SLA has traditionally paid little attention to the position of gesture in the acquisition of a second language and its relationship with verbal language in oral communication. Giuliana Salvato PhD Assistant Professor, Modern Languages (Italian and 2nd Language Education) Languages, Literatures & Cultures 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 tel. 519-253-3000 ext. 2064 fax 519-971-3648 www.uwindsor.ca/llc gsalvato@uwindsor.ca Click here to return to Table of Contents
China	Subject: Songs and Language Learning Professor Phil Benson Department of English Hong Kong Institute of Education 10 Lo Ping Road Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong (852) 2948 7224 (852) 2948 7270 pbenson@iei.edu.hk Click here to return to Table of Contents
China	Subject: Songs and Language Learning Presentation at AILA 2008 Wang, Ge / Yang, Hongyan Learning English in a multilingual and multicultural context: A case study of four successful English learners with Bai ethnic background This research examined the experiences of two successful English learners with Bai minority background in Yunnan China, seeking to understand their motivation, the positive and negative pressures on them of dealing with learning English as the 3rd even 4th language, and the opportunities and challenges to their sense of ethnic and national identity that learning English affords them. U of Hong Kong Yunnan U of Nationalities Wang Ge Professor YNU GhD candidate HKU Room 407, Graduate House The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 852-22490407 cell 852-69719973 wge72@yahoo.com.cn wge72@hotmail.com yanghongyanqiqi@yahoo.com Click here to return to Table of Contents
Germany	Domke, Christine Presentation at AILA 2008: Universal Signs and Symbols Die Kultur der Werbung: Medien und Orte neuerFormate Die Aufmerksamkeit potenti eller Konsumenten ist immer schwieriger zu erlangen, Werbung sucht daher verstärkt nach neuen Formaten an neuen Orten. In dem Beitrag werden aktuelle Werbe-Formate an Bahnhöfen und Flughäfen in Bezug auf wahrnehmbare semioti sche Ressourcen und Medien untersucht. Dabei wird das spezifische Zusammenspiel aus Ort und Werbung untersucht und der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit dabei auf einerseits lokale, andererseits internationalere symbolische Ordnungen Bezug genommen wird. Dr. Christine Domke Technische Universitat Chemnitz Phlosphische Fakultat Germanistiche Sprachwissenschaft 09107 Chemnitz christine.domke@phil.tu-chemnitz.de Thurniger We Il, Zimmer 213 Telephone +69 (0) 371-531-34051 Fax +69 (0) 371-531-27019 Click here to return to Table of Contents
Brasil	Vera Lúcia Subject of Paper at AILA 2008: Lopes Cristovão, Vera Lúcia / Aparecida Bagio Furtoso, Viviane Partnership for teacher education and EFL teaching The Project “Partnership University-School: contributions for EFL teaching” aimed at promoting reflective teacher education as well as improving EFL teaching in collaborative contexts. The objective of this paper is to present the analysis of some participants’ acts within the partnership in order to reveal a) the types of acting that constitute the teaching activity genre and b) the professional dimensions developed. The data come from journals, supervision sessions, meeti ngs and classes. The analysis is based on the sociodiscursive interactionism and work dimensions. veracristovao@yahoo.com • UEL • Brazil Vera Lucia Menezes de O. e Paiva Univeridade Federal de Mina Gerais Rua Maria Fortunata Rotheia, 381 Condominio Fazenda da Serra Paqueta - Belo Horizonte - MG 31.330-655 - Brasil Fone 3471-5360 cel 9123-8796 Faculdade de Letras Av. Antonio Carlos, 6627 Belo Horizonte -MG 31.270-901 - Brasil http://www.veramenezes.com vlmop@ veramenezes.com Click here to return to Table of Contents
India	Reddy, S. Devaki Presentation at AILA 2008 Attitudes towards the Hindi language in Tamil-Nadu The Indian Constitution recognizes Hindi as the official language of the Indian Union and English as the associate official language. Several attempts by the Government of India to make Hindi the sole official language did not succeed, owing to resistance from non-Hindi speaking states. This paper describes the measures being taken by the Government of India to promote the use of Hindi. It also examines the current attitudes of Tamil speakers in TamilNadu towards the official language policy. (Ms.) S. Devaki Reddy Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India6 dre@iitm.ac.in Click here to return to Table of Contents
Japan	Subject: To be determined CALL4ALL maintains a public access - gigantic data base for - language teaching materials - in ALL major languages. Dr. John Paul Loucky Associate Professor Seinan JoGakuin University Kitakyushu, JAPAN (81) 093-583-5748 loucky"at"seinan-jo.ac.jp www.CALL4ALL.us Click here to return to Table of Contents
Greece	Papaioannou, Vasiliki Presentation at AILA 2008 Teachers’ experiences in a distinctive UKbased multilingual school Dombey School is a multi lingual school where most staff members are at least bilingual. This qualitative case study explores teachers’ experiences in the above school and looks for evidence that its multilingual identity and school culture offer particular advantages or disadvantages to teachers in terms of work and professional development. U of Warwick - UK v.papaioannou@warwick.ac.uk eeryab@gmail.com Vasiliki Papaioannou (Greece) Cultural issues teacher's adaptation school programs teacher training programs Click here to return to Table of Contents
Japan	Etsuo MIZUKAMI, Ph.d Presentation at AILA 2008 Suzuki, Kana / Morimoto, Ikuyo / Mizukami, Etsuo / Otsuka, Hiroko Interviewer’s telling their personal experiences: An aspect of neutrality in interviews In terms of the attitude of neutrality that interviewers are supposed to maintain, this paper examines their telling personal experiences during interviews. The video-recorded data show that, unlike experts, amateur interviewers relate personal stories in receipt of interviewees’ answers. The telling entails the risk of leading interviewees toward certain directions. suzuka@gc4.so-net.ne.jp Etsuo MIZUKAMI, Ph.d Researcher Department of Spoken Language Research Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International 2-2-2 Hikaridal "Kehanna Science City" Kyoto 619-0228 Japan Phone + 81 774 95 1327 Secretary + 81 774 95 1301 Fax + 81 774 95 1308 email: etsuo.mizukami@atr.jp Click here to return to Table of Contents
Brasil	Subject: To be selected Junia Braga JuniaBraga@taskmail.com.br Click here to return to Table of Contents
Brasil	Subject: To be selected Liliane Assis Sade Dep. de Letras, Atres e Cultura UFSJ Universidade Federal De Sao Joao del-Rei Campus Dom Bosco Pca Dom Delvecio, 74 Fabricas 36.301-170 De Sao Joao del-Rei - MG Portugal (32) 3379-2468 - UFSJ (32) 3371-6516 - residencial (32) 9103-2570 lilisade@yahoo.com Click here to return to Table of Contents
India	rani.rubdy@nie.edu.sg Subject: 2011 subject to be selected Presentation at AILA 2008 Primary One in several Indian states. We describe the strategies of ‘creative practice’ (Williams 1997, Blommaert 2005) employed by teachers and students in resisting, subverting, and negotiating the challenges impacted by this decision, which reflect the agency of indigenous people in their struggle to teach and learn EIL on their own terms in the Indian post-colonial context. rani.rubdy@nie.edu.sg National Institute of Education Singapore madhu_gurtu@hotmail.com Prasad Mukherjee College India Click here to return to Table of Contents
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Lachachi, Djamel Eddine • Die Rolle der Wortarten im Übersetzungsprozess • Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Problem der Übersetzungsäquivalenz, konkret mit Vergleichen der arabischen und deutschen Wortarten anhand von zwei willkürlich gewählten Texten (nur Auszügen); gleichzeiti g erfolgt ein Übersetzungsverfahren, das nur die Wortarten und nicht die Wörter, wie es üblich ist, gebraucht. dlachachi@yahoo.fr • U d’Oran • Algeria

Vosghanian, Liliane • The choice of dialects in a diasporic situati on: The example of Armenian spoken in France • In this study, we wonder how is established the contact between the languages in a community in which two groups of diff erent speakers mix. Its specifi city lies in the fact that it is made up of speakers living in a diaspora and speaking diff erent varieti es of Armenian. We observed three tendencies when studying the way they worked in interacti on for which we propose to give examples and we wonder what allows to explain them, as the macro determinati ons are not enough to do such a work. liliane.vosghanian@univ-lyon2.fr • Lyon U • France