BELP PG Conference

BELP PG Conference
Westmere House, University of Birmingham
September 27, 2010

Will you be interested in the following sessions? Would you like to join us via webcast?
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9.00 – 9.30 Registration G3, Westmere


9.30 – 9.40 Welcome and Introduction

SESSION Chair:

9.40 – 10.00 Phrasal verbs and Malaysian Learners of English

10.00 – 10.20 An investigation of discourse markers oh and I think made by Chinese NNSs and NSs of English: Localisation of English and implications for pedagogy

10.20 – 10.40 A comparative study of wh-words in Chinese EFL textbooks, elicited native and non-native speaker data and written native and non-native speaker corpora

10.40 – 11.00 An Introduction to the NAFWiC

11.00 – 11.20 Coffee Break

SESSION 2 Chair:

11.20 – 11.40 'Women of Action': A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Professional Identities of Female Politicians in Contemporary Polish Media Discourse.

11.40 – 12.00 Four ideas about why ‘chav’ matters

12.00 – 12.20 A local grammar of translation equivalences

12.20 – 12.40 Valency – Word Sense – Sentence Production

12.40 – 1.40 Buffet Lunch

SESSION 3 Chair:

1.40 – 2.00 Online Teacher Professional Development: Effecting Change on Taiwanese EFL Teachers’ Attitudes and Classroom Practices

2.00 – 2.20 Blog Assisted Language Learning (BALL) in the EFL Writing Classroom

2.20 – 2.40 Genre of Feedback

2.40 – 3.00 How definite are we about articles in English? A study of English L2 learner article interlanguage during a University Presessional English course.

3.00 – 3.20 Tea Break

SESSION 4 Chair:

3.20 – 4.20 Guest Speaker:
The Linguist as Detective: Forensic Applications of Language Description