PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Day 1 - Thursday 13th June
9.00-9.45
Conference Registration
The Tony Rich Teaching center
9.45-10.00
Opening
Prof. Bob Borsley
University of Essex
TC 2.8 / TC 2.9
10.00-11.00
Plenary Session
TC 2.8 / TC 2.9
Dr. Alan Waters
Lancaster University
The construction of Pedagogy in ELT
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30-13.00
SESSION 1
TC 1.8 / TC 1.9
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.00
Poster Session 1
TC 1.8 / TC 1.9
15.00-17.00
SESSION 2
TC 1.8 / TC 1.9
18.30
Conference Dinner
Day 2 - Friday 14th June
9.30-10.00
Coffee
10.00-11.00
Plenary Session
TC 2.8 / TC 2.9
Prof. Andrew Spencer
University of Essex
Lexical Relatedness --- a Typology
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30-13.00
SESSION 3
TC 1.8 / TC 1.9
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.00
Poster Session 2
TC 1.8 / TC 1.9
15.00-16.30
SESSION 4
TC 1.8 / TC 1.9
16.30-17.00
Closing
TC 1.8
17.00
Social Reception
SESSION PROGRAMMES
Day 1 - Thursday 13th June
SESSION 1
Time
11.30-12.00
12.00- 12.30
12.30- 13.00
TC 1.8
Chair: Dr. Mike Jones
TC 1.9
Chair: Özgül Özbak
Hari Madhab Ray
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Isil Atli
Ondokuz Mayis University
Number and Number System of
Rajbanshi/Kamtapuri Language: A
construction Based Approach
Cross-linguistic influences of fossilization on
the use of collocations by Turkish learners of
English
Pelin Onar Valk
Tilburg University
Awad Alhassan
University of Essex
Immigrant Turkish in the Netherlands
changing with contact effects?
Students’ problems on an English-medium
MBA programme in Sudan: a qualitative
ethnographically-oriented study
Kemel Jouini
Victoria University of Wellington
Genie Bok-ja Cho
University of Essex
The Feature Structure of the Higher
Functional Field in Matrix V2 and VSO
Configurations
An Action Research Study of the
Effectiveness of Two Types of Role-Play in
Teaching English for Tourism at a Korean
University
SESSION 2
Time
TC 1.8
Chair: tbc
TC 1.9
Chair: Özgül Özbak
15.00-15.30
Natalia Cichosz
Laura Rosseel
University of Edinburgh
KU Leuven, Belgium
UCL
High datives in Polish
Knowledge of academic vocabulary in
relation to social and personal variables
for final-year students in Belgian
secondary schools: a quantitative
sociolexicological study
15.30-16.00
16.00-16.30
16.30-17.00
Olga Janus
University of Edinburgh
Zakariya Absi
University of Essex
English surface contact through motion
verbs and their Polish lexical
counterparts: the influence of prefixation
on argument structure in Slavic
Metalinguistic Knowledge, Speaking
Accuracy and Fluency in Instructed Syrian
Academic Learners of English
Ammar Alammar
SUNY at Stony Brook
Gamze Zengin
Anadolu University
Word Order and Subject Verb Agreement
in Najdi Arabic with Comparison To
Modern Standard Arabic
Learning Concrete Nouns with the help of
Computer-aided Picture Dictionary
Software: A Comparison of Self-taught vs.
Teacher-taught Young Learners
Samar Almoossa
Newcastle University
Yusuf Ozturk
Anadolu University
Is IELTS Enough as Indicator of Success
in Academic Study? The Answer From
Students' Experience and Prescriptive
Turkish and Native English Writers' Use of
Lexical Bundles: To What Extent Do They
Differ?
Day 2 – Friday 14th June
SESSION 3
Time
TC 1.8
Chair: Prof. Bob Borsley
PC LAB G 4N.4.3A
Chair: Dr. Enam Al-Wer
11.30-12.00
Kajsa Djarv
University of Cambridge
Najla Alghamdi
William Cotter
Uri Horesh
Exceptions to Swedish Verb Second:
Locality and the structure of the leftperiphery
Avelino Corral Esteban
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
12.00-12.30
12.30-13.00
A crosslinguistic analysis of passive voice
in terms of the syntax-semanticspragmatics interface
Joana Portia Sakyi
Marking of evidientiality in Akan and
relevance
University of Essex
SPSS and Rbrul as alternative means for
statistical analysis of linguistic variation: a
preliminary data-driven workshop
SESSION 4
Time
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.00
16.00-16.30
TC 1.8
Chair: Dr. Wyn Johnson
TC 1.9
Chair: Dr. Enam Al-Wer
Patchanok Kitikanan
Berta Badia Barrera
University of Essex
Acoustic Study of Thai Fricatives
A Sociolinguistic Study of Young RP
Sara Altubuly
University of Essex
Cathy Lonngren-Sampaio
University of Hertfordshire
Stress system of Libyan Arabic
Using quantitative measures to
investigate the relative roles of language
participating in code-switched utterances
Afaf Ali M. Said Fakhri
University of Essex
Natasha Solodovnikova
The Acquisition of English Consonant
Clusters by Libyan Learners of English
as a Second Language
The structure of associative fields helps
to understand bilingual individuality
POSTER SESSION 1
Time
TC 1.8- TC 1.9
14.00 -15.00
Wafa Alsafi
University of Essex
The Devlopment of the Arabic Impulsive-Reflective Cognitive Style Scale
Afia Tasneem Wasti
University of Essex
The Motivational Role of Literary Texts in Pakistani EFL Classrooms: Mixed Methods
Approach (work in progress)
Simona Floare Bora
University of Essex
Going beyond the mere word: authentic contemporary drama- Texts or/and
Performance – in EFL classroom
POSTER SESSION 2
Time
TC 1.8- TC 1.9
14.00 -15.00
Aimi Kuya
University of Oxford
Final Rises in Belfast English: A Corpus-based Study into Intonation and Markedness
for Interrogativity
Aiqing Wang
University of York
Preverbal Wh-elements in Late Archaic Chinese
Dima Al-Malahmeh
University of York
Does the presence of a foreign domestic helper affect the acquisition of Arabic
among children in Jordan?
Meilin Zhan
University of Edinburgh
Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Factors Affecting Input Processing of English Passives
by L2 Learners