5.30pm to

6.30pm

Welcome Function

Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise

Address by:
Helen Byrne, President, QATESOL
Debbie Kember, Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership

7:30am to

8.30am

Registration

8.30am to

9.00am

Official Opening And Welcome Address

Welcome to Country: Aunty Patricia Leavey
Opening Address: Robert Jackson, President, ACTA
Tribute to Penny McKay: Jennifer Alford

9.00am to

10.30am 

Professor Chris Davison

School of Education Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of NSW

Redefining TESOL in the 21st Century: Putting the teacher back into assessment

10.30am to

11.00am

Morning Tea

Stream 1

 Boulevard 1

Stream 2

 Boulevard 2

Stream 3

Boulevard 3

Stream 4

 Palm 2

Stream 5

Colloquium

Palm 1

11.00am to

11.45am

A/Prof Katie Dunworth

Speaking the same language. Developing an institutional approach to English language proficiency

Dr Miriam Faine

 We are, you are Australian – but will we ever sing in one voice?

Dr Karen Dooley,

Ms Helen Byrne

Literacy pedagogy for low literacy refugee students

Dr Jasmine Luk

Mediating multimodality in the EFL classroom – privileging semiotic compentence

Ms Denise Angelo, Ms Nina Carter, Miss Sophie McIntosh

Understanding Children’s Language Acquisition Project

11.45am to

12.30pm

Mrs Fiona Xaiz,

Ms Stav Touranakos

Models of ESL / VET Shared Delivery at Chisholm, Victoria

Ms Birgit Freitag,

Ms Tracey Hopkins

Rural Queensland – a primary school – 36 newly enrolled students who don’t speak English – what to do?

Ms Candy Gray,

Ms Debra Dolman

What do we do when the novelty wears off? Language and literacy: it’s everybody’s business

A/Prof Jennifer Hammond

Challenge, support and affect in programs for second language learners

12.30pm to

1.30pm

Lunch

1.30pm to

3.00pm

Professor B. Kumaravadivelu

San Jose State University, California, USA

Redefining Language Teacher Education for the 21^st Century

3.00pm to

3.30pm

Afternoon Tea

Stream 6

Stream 7

Stream 8

 Boulevard 3

Stream 9

Colloquium

Palm 2

Stream 10

Workshop

Palm 1

3.30pm to

4.15pm

Dr Phyllis Wachob

Community based learning, critical pedagogy and EFL teaching

 Ms Susan Creagh,  

Ms Denise Angelo, Ms Catherine Hudson

The ESL Guidelines and the P-12 Curriculum Framework in Queensland

Mrs Ruth Crilly

Making improvements to ESL at a system level

Dr Debra Ives,

Dr Penny Haworth,

Dr Candace Harper

The missing link? Generalist and content teachers’ preparedness to engage with ESL pedagogies 

Dr Robert Jackson, Ms Patricia Paring

Assessing ESL learners in mainstream English classrooms

4.15pm to

5.00pm

Dr Jacquie Widin,

Dr Keiko Yasukawa

Outside in, Inside out: relationships between the external world and the LLN classroom

Mr Tawatchai Chaisiri

An investigation of the teaching of English writing in a university in Thailand with a special focus on genre

8.30am to

9.00am

Registration

9.00am to

10.30am

Professor Martin Nakata, B.Ed. Hons. PhD

University of Technology, Sydney

Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of learning

Chair, Australian Indigenous Education

Language and literacy learning in Indigenous education

10.30am to

11.00am

Morning Tea

Stream 11

  Palm 1

Stream 12

  Palm 2

Stream 13

Featured Speaker

 Boulevard Ballroom

11.00am to

11.45am

Mr Leonardo Veliz

Bringing cognitive linguistics into the ESL classroom

Dr John Turlik

Assessing vocabulary in academic English L2 writing of Arabic first language students

Robert Randall

General Manager,Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

How will the Australian Curriculum meet the needs of all EAL/EAD learners in Australian schools?

11.45am to

12.30pm

Dr Rosemary Wette

How teachers of adult ESOL use materials to fulfil curriculum aims and their own theories of good practice

Ms Sepideh Mirzaei Fard, Dr Zaini Amir, A/Prof Hazita Azman

Classification of reading strategies in Hypermedia contexts: a case study of postgraduates

12.30pm to

1.30pm

Lunch

1.30pm to

3.00pm

Sponsored By:

Associate Professor Angel Mei Yi Lin

 Division of English Language Education, Faculty of Education
The University of Hong Kong

Exploiting Popular Culture in TESOL Practice: Insights from Cultural Studies

3.00pm to

3.30pm

Afternoon Tea

Stream 14

  Boulevard 1

Stream 15  

Boulevard 2

Stream 16

 Boulevard 3

Stream 17

Colloquium

 Palm 2

Stream 18

Palm 1

3.30pm to

4.15pm

Ms Jane Wallace,

Kim Cootes

Teaching refugees in mainstream classrooms

Mr Mahmoud Abdallah

Web-based new literacies: revisiting literacy in TESOL and EFL teacher education

Dr Candace Harper

Pre-service to practice: preparing all teachers for English language learners

Roundtable:

Current and Future Directions in Policies for Adult ESL in Australia

Ms Liz Davidson VicTESOL

A/Prof Helen Moore

School of Education, UNSW.

4.15pm to

5.00pm

Ms Zan Chen,

Dr Christine Goh

Teaching oral English in China: Challenges to EFL teachers

Denise Angelo, Juanita Sellwood

Inclusion of a compulsory ESL subject in mainstream pre-service teacher training

6.30pm till late

Conference Dinner

Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise

Address by Dr Eva Bernat, UNSW

Redefining the language teacher for the 21^st Century

8.30am to

9.00am

Registration

9.00am to

10.30am

Professor Allan Luke

Queensland University of Technology

Pedagogy as Gift

10.30am to

11.00am

Morning Tea

Stream 19

 Boulevard 1

Stream 20

  Boulevard 2

Stream 21

  Boulevard 3

Stream 22

  Palm 2

Stream 23

Workshop

Palm 1

11.00am to

11.45am

Ms Denise Angelo, Mr John Baskerville, Ms Michelle Smith

The White Rock Longitudinal Language Study and related language initiatives

Dr Erika Hepple,

Dr Donna Tangen

Transnational Field Experience: Making the Familiar Strange

Ms Thuy Dinh

Teaching English macro-skills to students to be interculturally competent

Dr Ruth Arber

Manoeuvering in-between: Chinese-Australian identities, multicultural curriculum and the transnational transforrmational locale

Dr Jenny Miller

Building literacy from the ground up: the role of comprehension and vocabulary

11.45am to

12.30pm

Ms Samantha Vanderford

Rates of progress in learning ESL: the impact of background factors

Dr Stephen Moore

21^st Century TESOL: a research turn for teachers

Mrs Sally Ashton-Hay

"Here's a Story": Raising Awareness of ESL Language Learning Strategies

Dr Michele de Courcy

Does it have to be literacy in English?

12.30pm to

1.30pm

Lunch

1.30pm to

3.00pm

Conference Panel

The shape of things to come: TESOL teaching, learning and research in 2010 and beyond.

Official Close

3.00pm to

3.30pm

Afternoon Tea