The 1st Waseda International Workshop

■ 1st Waseda ELF International Workshop

■ 30th August 2011 Special Lectures

Venue:Room 201, Building 22, Waseda Campus Map

14:30-16:00 Professor Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna

ELF(Enlish as a Lingua Franca): New Perspectives on English

16:00-17:30 Professor Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna, University of London

Creative capacity: rethinking subject English

■ 31st August 2011 1st Waseda ELF International Workshop

Venue:Room 107, Building 16, Waseda University Map

Programme

1) 13:30 Opening & Introduction Kumiko Murata

2) 13:40 - 15:55 ELF Research in Progress

― Incorporating an ELF Perspective in the Existing Research ―

13:40 - 15:20 Individual Paper Presentations

Mayu Konakahara

'A preliminary study of ELF interaction:Analysis of an informal talk in a British higher education context'

Takuji Aso

'English-medium university education as discursive practice:

A practice-based perspective on SLA with implications for ELF'

Keiko Sato

'Acquisition of English pronunciation in an ELF setting'

Kaori Doi

'Conversation Styles in ELF Interaction: How ELF speakers communicate for successful communication'

Keiko Tsuchiya

'Not 'letting it pass' in an ELF business conversation in a South Asian country:A time-aligned corpus based approach '

15:20 Comments on the individual presentations

Commentators - Profs Seidlhofer & Widdowson

15: 35 Questions & Answers

15:55 - 16:15 Coffee/ Tea Break

3) 16:15 - 18:45 Panel―(Re)Interpreting Data from an ELF Perspective―

16:15 Murata Kumiko Introduction

16:20 Special Panel Contribution

Prof. Ryuko Kubota, University of British Columbia

'Questioning the assumption about English: ELF, English language teaching, and beyond'

16:50 Harada, Tetsuo 'ELF in CLIL'

17:10 Backhaus Peter 'Traces of ELF in Japan's linguistic landscape'

17:30 Sawaki Yasuyo 'Issues of consideration on developing ELF assessment criteria'

17:50 Discussants Profs. Barbara Seidlhofer & Henry Widdowson

18:10 Questions & Answers

4) 18:35 Round-up Kumiko Murata